Which writer's autobiography was published in 2010, 100 years after his death as instructed in his will?
Autobiography of Mark Twain Library undertook to produce a complete autobiography of Twain, based upon material within their collection. The stated goal is "to publish the complete text as nearly as possible in the way Mark Twain intended it to be published after his death.". This was published in three-volumes between 2010 and 2015, with the first in the 100th anniversary year of Twain’s death. All three volumes are available online with introductions and historical annotation from the editors also included with the text. The head editor for this work was Harriet Elinor Smith. The first volume of a three-volume edition runs to 760
Autobiography of Mark Twain Twain's (purported) concern for those who could be aggrieved by the text, and more likely an attempt to extend the copyright. Various modern reports refer to a "100 year embargo" imposed by Twain on his own autobiography's release which expired in 2010. Twain himself had published "Chapters from My Autobiography" in twenty-five instalments in the "North American Review" in 1906-7. Since Twain's death in 1910, a number of different editors have made attempts to impose some order on the whole of the material by selection and reorganization, producing several decidedly different published versions of "The Autobiography". Creating a publishable "Autobiography"