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Four years before he died at age 74 in 1910, Twain dictated most of the 500000-word autobiography to a stenographer. Twain ordered that the full, unexpurgated text, marked by rants against Wall Street and U.S. foreign policy, not be published until 100 ... The paperback edition features new material, including poems, the memorial card for Mapplethorpe's memorial at the Whitney Museum, and a photo of the view from one of their rooms, #206, in Manhattan's Hotel Chelsea. ...