Yes, that is accurate; Mark Twain's autobiography will be published this November. He locked it into his will that it could not be unsealed and printed until 100 years after his death. He actually died in April of 1910, but I guess it takes some time to get it formatted and printed. He wanted the 100 year delay so he would be completely free to say whatever he wanted to about anyone. Should be a hell of a read.
Then, this was added by Auggie:
The Independent (May 23, 2010):
Exactly a century after rumours of his death turned out to be entirely accurate, one of Mark Twain's dying wishes is at last coming true: an extensive, outspoken and revelatory autobiography which he devoted the last decade of his life to writing is finally going to be published.
The creator of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and some of the most frequently misquoted catchphrases in the English language left behind 5,000 unedited pages of memoirs when he died in 1910, together with handwritten notes saying that he did not want them to hit bookshops for at least a century.
That milestone has now been reached, and in November the University of California, Berkeley, where the manuscript is in a vault, will release the first volume of Mark Twain's autobiography. The eventual trilogy will run to half a million words, and shed new light on the quintessentially American novelist.
Scholars are divided as to why Twain wanted the first-hand account of his life kept under wraps for so long. Some believe it was because he wanted to talk freely about issues such as religion and politics. Others argue that the time lag prevented him from having to worry about offending friends.
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