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Harold
The Boy Who Became Mark Twain
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In Harold, the beloved actor Hal Holbrook presents an affecting memoir abot his struggle to discover his true self, even as he learned to transform himself onstage. Abandoned by their mother and father when he was only two, Holbrook and his two sisters each commenced separate journeys of survival. Holbrook spent most of his childhood at boarding schools, visiting his father in an insane asylum, and hoping his mother would suddenly surface in Hollywood.
Through war, marriage, and the work of honing his craft, his fear of insanity and his fearlessness in the face of risk were channeled into discovering that the riskiest path of all-success as an actor-would be his birthright. And how he achieved it-the cost to his wife and children and to his own conscience-is the dark side of the fame he would eventually earn by portraying the man his career would forever be most closely associated with: Mark Twain.
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