A daughter of Mark Twain

In 1979 Janet Frame received a letter telling her this:

6th October 1979

Dear Janet Frame

In recognition of

your outstanding contribution to

American Literature by your

Living in the Maniototo

you have been unanimously elected

A DAUGHTER 

of

MARK TWAIN

CYRIL CLEMENS

Editor
Mark Twain Journal

(Cyril Clemens was a distant cousin of Mark Twain and President of the Mark Twain Society.)

Some droll Mark Twain quotations:

"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."

"Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written."

 

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't."

"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please."