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Laura Skandera Trombley
WOMEN OF THE WEST, ALL ABOUT BOOKS
Author of Mark Twain’s Other Woman
GENERAL INFO
Date / Time:
Sunday, Aug 8, 2010, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location:
Wells Fargo Theater, Griffith Park
Appropriate For:
Adults
Admission:
Free with museum admission
Join us as Laura Trombley discusses the unknown side of Mark Twain.
Laura Trombley is an internationally renowned Mark Twain scholar, who has authored several books and dozens of scholarly articles on Twain, including her most recent book, Mark Twain's Other Woman. She appeared in Ken Burns' Mark Twain documentary and, as a graduate student, discovered the largest known cache of Mark Twain letters.
In addition to Mark Twain's Other Woman, Trombley's other works on Twain include Mark Twain in the Company of Women and Constructing Mark Twain: New Directions in Scholarship. In addition to being an author, Laura is also the president of Pitzer College.
