Harder Than It Looks: The Final Recollections of Mark Twain

by Thomas Hauser

Hauser invites readers to "suspend disbelief and enjoy" as he commingles Mark Twain's actual words and ideas with his own imagined ones in this fictionalized account of the author's remembrances during his last days.

200 pages, Hardcover

First published August 13, 1957

About the author

Thomas Hauser (b. 1946) is the author of forty-two books on subjects ranging from professional boxing to Beethoven. His first work, Missing, was made into an Academy Award–winning film. Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times earned numerous awards for its author, including the prestigious William Hill Sports Book of the Year. In 2004, the Boxing Writers Association of America honored Hauser with the Nat Fleischer Award for Career Excellence in Boxing Journalism.