• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mark Twain

  • Jun 28 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mark Twain

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  • A bar fight and a stint on the lam transformed Samuel Clemens into Mark Twain — and changed the course of American literature. Settle in for Mark Twain's origin story.

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    Hosted by Dana Schwartz, Zaron Burnett, Jason English
    Written by Zaron Burnett
    Produced by Josh Fisher
    Editing and Sound Design: Jonathan Washington and Josh Fisher
    Mixing and Mastering: Baheed Frazier
    Story Editor: Marisa Brown
    Research and Fact-Checking: Austin Thompson and Zaron Burnett
    Voice Actors: Frank Nemec, Zack Nemec, Elizabeth Dutton, and Jonathan Washington
    Original Music by Elise McCoy
    Show Logo by Lucy Quintanilla
    Executive Producer: Jason English

    Special thanks to Bob Hirst from the Mark Twain Archive at UC Berkeley, and Joseph Amster from Emperor Norton's Fantastic San Francisco Time Machine.

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