Tom Quirk

Tom Quirk is Catherine Paine Middlebush Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is the editor of the Penguin Classics editions of Mark Twain’sTales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches(1994) and Ambrose Bierce’s Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories(2000) and co-editor of The Portable American Realism Reader(1997). His recent books include Nothing Abstract: Investigations in the American Literary Imagination(2001) and Mark Twain and Human Nature (2007).