Expertise:  As a long-time reader of Twain (whom i also perform as a one-man-act), i think that i know how he viewed the world and how his world view changed as the times that he lived in changed. As regards the vast literary research that has gone into his life, i continually am learning; but, alas: my ignorance remains vast.

Experience in the area
Mainly a reader and occasionally a researcher into literature. I have read almost all of his shorter as well the following works: Letters from the Earth Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Tom Sawyer Abroad Letters from the Earth Extracts from Adam's Diary Eve's Diary The Mysterious Stranger Following the Equator The Innocents Abroad Roughing It The War Prayer The Damned Human Race As well as "dipping into" the following: The Gilded Age The Prince and the Pauper The Tragedy of Pudd'Nhead Wilson Life on the Mississippi Notebooks And of course: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

Education/Credentials
BSCS, University of North Texas, Denton MA (ATEC), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson

Awards and Honors
First place (with editor Ivana Corsalé) in the TIPA (Texas Inter-Collegiate Press Association) awards for "Best Series" for the Brookhaven Courier: "Brookhaven - The First 25 Years".