Gary Scharnhorst

Gary Scharnhorst is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at the University of New Mexico, USA, editor of the scholarly journal American Literary Realism, and recipient of six Fulbright fellowships in Germany. He is also a former chair of the American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association and a former president of the Western Literature Association, both based in the USA. He is the author of nearly two hundred academic articles and the author or editor of over seventy books, including Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews (2006), Mark Twain on Potholes and Politics: Letters to the Editor (2014), and the three-volume The Life of Mark Twain (2018-22).