Autobiography of Mark Twain celebration

Feb 08, 2011

At the time of his death in 1910, Mark Twain left his last major literary workan autobiographyunpublished and stipulated that the entire unexpurgated work should not be issued for at least a hundred years after his death. In November 2010, the year that marked the centenary of Twain's death, UC Press issued the first volume of a complete three-volume critical edition of the autobiography, edited by the staff of the Mark Twain Project.The Hammer Museum celebrates the publication of Mark Twain's autobiography with Twain scholar and editor of the Mark Twain Project, Robert Hirst, who discusses Twain's life and work. Co-presented with University of California Press and PEN Center USA.