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Buffalo Library’s Twain Story PublishedA short story written by Mark Twain 125 years ago is in print for the first time, thanks to the efforts of the Buffalo and Erie County (N.Y.) Public Library, which secured the publishing rights to the manuscript in its collection. “A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage,” penned in 1876, appears in the July/August issue of the Atlantic Monthly, the magazine Twain sent it to originally, with the idea that contemporary authors could develop the plot into their own stories. “We are sorry it took 125 years, but we are delighted to have Mark Twain back in our pages,” Atlantic editor Michael Kelly said in the June 29 Buffalo News. The first two chapters also appear on the library’s Web site. In the spirit of Twain’s original aim, the library held a writing competition where fans could come up with their own endings to the story. More than 560 entries were submitted by the June 25 deadline, according to Assistant Deputy Director of Community Relations Ami Savigny. A panel of literary figures—among them Joyce Carol Oates, Lauren Belfer, and Leslie Fiedler—will select the winners, who will be announced at a celebration at the Central Library in October. Posted July 2, 2001. |
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