Edward Wagenknecht

From the dust jacket of Mark Twain: The Man and His Work:

EDWARD WAGENKNECHT, professor of English in Boston University, is a distinguished biographer, literary critic, and editor, whose interests range widely in both English and American literature. In addition to his own extensive writing, he has reviewed "thousands of books" for major newspapers and journals. He collects phonograph records of opera, Lieder, and drama; and an biding interest in silent motion pictures is reflected in his recent work, The Movies in the Age of Innocence (Nonan, 1962).