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 a panel discussion with Twain scholar and editor of the Mark Twain Project, Robert Hirst, and Hal Holbrook, moderated by David Kipen.

Co-presented with University of California Press and PEN Center USA.