Episode 17: Jap Herron and Mark Twain's Ghost

Books in the Wild by Keri Schroeder

Dec 8, 2020Arts

In 1917, a new novella was published by Mark Twain. The weird part? Twain died in 1910 and the book was purportedly written by his ghost.

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