In Reports of My Death: Beyond-the-Grave Confessions of North American Writers, author Gerry Christmas taps into a literary limbo where he relives the lives of writers in an endless cycle of introspection. Sixty-five "autobiographies" tell you ... - How Mark Twain Americanized the English language and put a human face on the slave trade. - How Edgar Allan Poe came up with the basic theory of relativity fifty years before Albert Einstein. - How Walt...