Who wrote the first novel on a typewriter?

I think the honor goes to Mark Twain. In his autobiographical dictations he remembered it as the manuscript of Tom Sawyer (1874), but according to typewriter historian Darryl Rehr, the book was Life on the Mississippi (1882), and the machine was a Remington No. 2. The picture on the right below is (allegedly) the very typewriter that Twain used:

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/yankee/cymach4.jpg

Man thats wild..I thought it was Rush Limbaugh :D

[ 01-11-2004, 03:33 AM: Message edited by: garfield ]