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- ↑ "Forrest Robinson, UC Santa Cruz | Distinguished Professor of Humanities". forrestrobinson.sites.ucsc.edu.
- ↑ Crow, Charles L. (1997). "The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain ed. by Forrest G. Robinson, and: Mark Twain A to Z by R. Kent Rasmussen (review)". Western American Literature. 31 (4): 384–388. doi:10.1353/wal.1997.0092. ISSN 1948-7142 . Retrieved 1 December 2020.
- ↑ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Forrest G. Robinson". Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
- ↑ Eble, Kenneth E. (November 20, 1987). "In Bad Faith: The Dynamics of Deception in Mark Twain's America by Forrest G. Robinson (review)". Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. 41 (4): 265–266. doi:10.2307/1347305. JSTOR 1347305. S2CID 201784714 – via Project MUSE.
- ↑ Bush, Harold K. (2008). Review of The Author-Cat: Clemens's Life in Fiction, by Forrest G. Robinson. New England Quarterly , vol. 81, no. 4, pp. 714–716. doi : 10.1162/tneq.2008.81.4.714. JSTOR 20474685. S2CID 144532123.
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