Where’s Mark Twain When We Really Need Him?

by Jerry Bledsoe, Harry Blair (Illustrator)

New York Times best-selling author Jerry Bledsoe is best known for his probing true crime books that transcend the genre. But before an editor’s assignment changed the trajectory of his career, he was a newspaper columnist noted for his humor and his ability to tell the stories of everyday people. Long out of print and now available for the first time as an ebook, Where’s Mark Twain When We Really Need Him? is a collection some of his rib-tickling columns. Bledsoe is probably is the only living writer who can claim to have attracted the attention of Mark Twain in the Great Beyond.The story of how that happened explains how this hilarious book got its title.That is just one of the many funny stories to be found here - and not the only one to deal with the departed great and famous.It was Bledsoe who revealed Elvis Presley's most shameful secret, and you can read about that and the ruckus it stirred in these pages.Bledsoe's humor is distinctive and infectious, and he applies it to a wide range of subjects in this book.Whether he's writing about his adventures at a nudist park, the things his wife says in her sleep, his youthful attempts to score at Myrtle Beach, the many exotic troubles that afflict his life, or offering his solutions to the energy crisis and Yankee problem, it all translates to good fun and laughter.

222 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 27, 2021

About the author

Jerry Bledsoe is the author of "The New York Times "#1 bestseller "Bitter Blood, "and others. He has written for "Esquire, The New York Times, "and many other publications. He lives in North Carolina and Virginia.