Alan Gribben, an American literary scholar and professor emeritus of English at Auburn University at Montgomery in Alabama, died on May 9, 2026.
He was 84. Gribben built a career on the works of Mark Twain and was a longtime professor and department head at Auburn University at Montgomery.
He served as distinguished research professor from 1998 to 2001 and as the Dr. Guinevera A. Nance Alumni Professor from 2006 to 2009. He also edited the Mark Twain Journal and published the three-volume Mark Twain’s Literary Resources in 2019.
Alan Gribben (November 21, 1941 – May 9, 2026) was an American academic and literary scholar on Mark Twain who was professor emeritus of English at Auburn University at Montgomery in Alabama. He was distinguished research professor from 1998 to 2001 and the Dr. Guinevera A. Nance Alumni Professor from 2006 to 2009. Gribben engendered widespread controversy in 2011 when he announced the publication of expurgated versions of Twain’s works.