![]() ![]() ![]() Grant was writing articles about the many battles he had fought during the Civil War and hoped to expand on these articles and form a memoir of his military career. Grant had previously agreed to allow a publishing company to print the book but had not yet signed a final contract. Twain was not even involved with the project when he began writing. The original hand-written manuscript still survives and is entirely penned with Grant’s own handwriting. My sense is that people read Grant’s writing, hear about the association with Twain and assume that explains it.” However, the claim is untrue. In a February 2012 article for The Atlantic writer Ta-Nehisi Coates explained the myth by stating that, “a lot of really intelligent people are under the impression that Grant’s lucid prose are really the result of Mark Twain’s editing hand. Grant did not entirely write his own memoirs. Rumors have persisted for many years that Ulysses S. ![]()
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