In Chapter 26 of Emily’s Quest, Ilse runs away from her wedding to see Perry Miller when she overhears a wedding guest say that he had gotten in an automobile collision on his way to the wedding:

“But I didn’t think about Teddy at all when I heard Aunt Ida say Perry was killed. I was quite mad. My one thought was to see Perry once before he died. I HAD to. And I found when I got there that, as Mark Twain said, the report of his death was greatly exaggerated. He wasn’t even badly hurt–was sitting up in bed, his face all bruised and bandaged–looking like the devil. Want to hear what happened, Emily?”

“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”
Mark Twain
This popular comment of Mark Twain’s stemmed from a report in New York Journal.
From http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/authors/mark-twain/:

2 Jan 1897
Reports of Twain’s death “greatly exaggerated.” In Twain’s notebook: “Came Mr. White, representing the N.Y. Journal with two cablegrams from his paper. (1) ‘If Mark Twain dying in poverty, in London, send 500 words.’ (2) ‘Later. If Mark Twain has died in poverty send 1000 words.’” Twain’s response: “James Ross Clemens, a cousin, was seriously ill here two or three weeks ago, but is well now. The report of my illness grew out of his illness; the report of my death was an exaggeration. I have not been ill. Mark Twain.”