So Now You Know

Among the first users of the typewriter was Mark Twain, who fiddled around with it. Twain became the first person to submit a novel in typed form to the publisher, but that wasn't until much later ("Life on the Mississippi", 1883), and he didn't type it himself... it was a typed copy of his handwritten manuscript. Twain fans might cite his autobiography which says "Tom Sawyer" was his first book submitted in typescript. Not so. The old fella remembered it wrong and careful research by Twain historians has proven otherwise.