The Ghosts of Mark Twain: the people and events that haunted what he wrote—and did not write (LISTEN)

In Missouri and the rest of America, we put Mark Twain on a pedestal- literally.

It’s the human and flawed side of Mark Twain that is just interesting, says writer Ann Ryan. Her book, The Ghosts of Mark Twain, was recently published by the University of Missouri Press. She talks with Ashley Byrd.