
When Mark Twain finished his autobiography, he stipulated that it could not be published until 100 years after his death. The manuscript, which has been available to scholars at the University of California Berkeley archives, has recently been published and it contains several allegations that may damage his reputation as a leftist and a feminist. Between 1902 and his death in 1910, Twain employed Isabel Van Kleek Lyon as his literary executor. However, everything was not always sunshine and daffodils in the Twain house, as Twain claims that Lyon hypnotized him and attempted to seduce him in order to steal his money. In a letter to one of his good friends, Twain …