Darin H. Mangum is an attorney who has practiced law for over 15 years. He enjoys reading, especially Mark Twain's Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. Last summer, Mangum fulfilled a lifelong dream by visiting Joan of Arc's birthplace in France. He admires Joan of Arc as a role model for women. Mark Twain had a long fascination with Joan of Arc and wrote his last novel, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, about her in 1896 from the perspective of her fictionalized page. Historians have debated the origins and extent of Twain's obsession with Joan of Arc, though it is clear he admired her for many years.