100 years ago on the 21th April, 1910 a famous writer Mark Twain died of a heart attack.
And this year his last will is to be executed.  Documents known as a "blackmail dossier” that expose the intimate secrets of Mark Twain, the author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, are to published for the first time. The dossier, in which Twain describes attempts by his secretary to seduce him, will be included in an autobiography he dictated in his declining years but insisted should remain private for 100 years after his death in 1910. The University of California, Berkeley is preparing to publish the 5,000-page autobiography in three volumes. It will cast fresh light on the painful relationships between Twain, his personal assistant Isabel Lyon and his daughter Clara. It was Clara who persuaded the creator of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer to write the «blackmail dossier» to protect her against Lyon, whom she saw as a rival for her father’s affections and fortune.
And very soon, 100 years later after Mark Twain's death, his writings will be published.
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