From Mark Twain’s ‘Huckleberry Finn’ to Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland,’ Whose Story Is It Anyway?

Carl Van Vechten / Mark Sexton / A.F. Bradley
Willa Cather in 1936, Paul Simon’s 1986 ‘Graceland’ album cover, and Mark Twain in 1907

The insight and quality of ‘Death Comes for the Archbishop’ shows that great art exists beyond the artist.