A random encounter with Mark Twain changed my life

August 24, 2022, 04:08:51 PM

A random encounter with Mark Twain changed my life

[html]I'm an adult stutterer. When I was young, my stutter was so severe it was hard to verbally put together back-to-back sentences. I felt silenced. It was books that rescued me, gave me voice, even books that a person like me -- a Black dude who grew up in poverty in the shadow of Jim Crow in the Deep South -- supposedly might not connect with. But Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" allowed me to peek into worlds I never dreamed of, opening up my imagination in a way that's been foundational for my writing and teaching pursuits as an author and college professor.[/html]

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