About the author

Dorothy Quick (1896–1962) was an American writer. Public information about her is limited, and her name is chiefly associated with her acquaintance with Mark Twain in his later years: she met the author as a young girl, and this experience has served as a piece of evidence for later generations seeking to understand Twain's final years. She herself wrote fiction and reminiscences, and her representative work is The Lost Door. Judging from the surviving records, her writing spans both fiction and non-fiction—the former displaying narrative imagination, the latter recording, from a firsthand perspective, her dealings with an older literary figure, and thus possessing some documentary value. Because few of her works survive and little research exists on her, her literary standing has yet to be fully discussed, and her writing style and broader influence remain to be further examined.

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