Alan Gribben, Twain Scholar Who Excised Slur From ‘Huck Finn,’ Dies at 84

He made it his mission to track down every book Mark Twain owned — and to fix what he saw as flaws that kept schools from teaching the author’s most famous works.

​He made it his mission to track down every book Mark Twain owned — and to fix what he saw as flaws that kept schools from teaching the author’s most famous works.