Tossed this into the submissions hat because I didn't know that "he spent more than a dozen years of his adult life outside the United States", and a few other

Tossed this into the submissions hat because I didn't know that "he spent more than a dozen years of his adult life outside the United States", and a few other tidbits in this piece. (Not that I was an expert on Twain before, but I've been reading him, and about him, for a few years now. I'm a sucker for the "unpopular opinions" strain of famous authors, such as Mark Twain, H.L.Mencken and Gore Vidal ;-)