About
the Book
Title:
Twain’s End
Author:
Lynn Cullen
Genre:
Historical
Now
in paperback for the first time from the national bestselling author
of Mrs.
Poe, Lynn
Cullen,
comes
TWAIN’S
END (Gallery Books; June 7, 2016; Trade Paperback; $16.00), a
fictional imagining of America’s iconic writer Mark Twain and the
woman who knew him too well.
In
March of 1909, Mark Twain cheerfully blessed the wedding of his
private secretary, Isabel V. Lyon, and his business manager, Ralph
Ashcroft. One month later, he fired both, wrote a ferocious 429-page
rant about the pair, and then—with his daughter, Clara
Clemens—slandered Isabel in the newspapers, erasing her nearly
seven years of devoted service to their family.
In
TWAIN’S
END,
Lynn Cullen “cleverly spins a mysterious, dark, tale” (Booklist)
about the tangled relationship between Twain and Lyon. A silenced
woman, Isabel’s loyal service and innocence were not enough to
combat the slander, and she has gone down in history as the
villainess who swindled Twain in his final years. She never rebutted
Twain’s claims, never spoke badly of the man she called “The
King,” and kept her silence until she died in 1958. How did Lyon go
from being the beloved secretary who ran Twain’s life to a woman he
was determined to destroy? TWAIN’S
END
explains.
Author
Bio
Lynn
Cullen lives in Atlanta surrounded by her large family, and like Mark
Twain, enjoys being bossed around by cats. Follow Lynn Cullen on
Facebook or visit www.lynncullen.com.
Links
Buy
the book on Simon & Schuster:
http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Twains-End/Lynn-Cullen/9781476758978
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