Karen Lystra

Karen Lystra is professor of American studies emerita at California State University, Fullerton. She is the author of Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years and Searching the Heart: Women, Men, and Romantic Love in Nineteenth-Century America. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, a Distinguished Faculty Award, and Outstanding Honors Professor of the Year. She is a former president of the Western Association of Women Historians.

Karen Lystra is professor of American studies emerita at California State University, Fullerton. She is the author of Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years and Searching the Heart: Women, Men, and Romantic Love in Nineteenth-Century America. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, a Distinguished Faculty Award, and Outstanding Honors Professor of the Year. She is a former president of the Western Association of Women Historians. See less