Gary Scharnhorst

Gary Scharnhorst is a Distinguished Professor emeritus of English at the University of New Mexico and the author or editor of over fifty books, including a three-volume biography of Mark Twain. He is the editor of the scholarly journal American Literary Realism.

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Her Contemporaries

Literary and Intellectual Contexts

Edited by Cynthia J. Davis and Denise D. Knight

University of Alabama Press

Considers Gilman’s place in American literary and social history by examining her relationships to other prominent intellectuals of her era

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Mainly the Truth

Interviews with Mark Twain

Edited by Gary Scharnhorst

University of Alabama Press

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Mark Twain

The Complete Interviews

Edited by Gary Scharnhorst

University of Alabama Press

The great writer’s irascible wit shines in this comprehensive collection

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman's Place in America

Edited by Jill Annette Bergman; Introduction by Jill Annette Bergman

University of Alabama Press

A compelling critical investigation into Gilman’s conception of setting and place

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Sinclair Lewis Remembered

Edited by Gary Scharnhorst and Matthew Hofer; Introduction by Gary Scharnhorst and Matthew Hofer

University of Alabama Press

Sinclair Lewis Remembered is a collection of reminiscences and memoirs by contemporaries, friends, and associates of Lewis that offers a revealing and intimate portrait of this complex and significant Nobel Prize–winning American writer.

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Mark Twain at Home

How Family Shaped Twain’s Fiction

By Michael J. Kiskis; Afterword by Gary Scharnhorst; Foreword by Laura Skandera Trombley

University of Alabama Press

Explores the influence of domesticity on the writing and career of Samuel Clemens, reframing with rich biographical detail and historical context Twain’s major late-nineteenth century work

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