Preface by Susan Jaffe Tane / Introduction by Susan Jaffe Tane, Julie Carlsen, Gabriel Mckee / Introduction to the Essays by Kevin Mac Donnell / "Jim Smiley's Jumping Frog" and Mark Twain's Leap to Fame by Joe B. Fulton / Mark Twain's Literature for Younger Readers by John Bird / Mark Twain's Audiences and Voices by David E. E. Sloane / Mark Twain's Journalism by Benjamin Griffin / "Yrs Truly, SLC": Mark Twain's Letters by Barbara E. Snedecor / Twain on Stage: Lectures and Speeches by Mark Dawidziak / Mark Twain Abroad: Travel Writing by Alan Gribben / Mark Twain Commodified by Judith Yaross Lee / The Western Experience by James E. Caron / Twain's Autobiography and Other Nonfiction by R. Kent Rasmussen / Mark Twain Influenced; Mark Twain, Influencer by Kevin Mac Donnell / Our Wild Indians: A Writer's Sourcebook by Kerry Driscoll / Banning, Editing, and Censoring Huckleberry Finn by Nichole Misako Nomura / Mark Twain at Play by Gabriel Mckee / What's in a Name?: Samuel Clemens and Mark Twain by Julie Carlsen Works Cited / Humorous Highlights from the Mark Twain Collection of Susan Jaffe Tane / About the Essayists / Photography Credits / Index /.
A First-Class Fool : Mark Twain and Humor, Featuring the Collection of Susan Jaffe Tane