Mark Twain: A Skeptic's Progress October 15, 2010

In a joint exhibition with the New York Public Library, 'Mark Twain: A Skeptic's Progress,' explores the life and work of the enduring novelist, short story writer, fabulist, critic, lecturer and travel-writer, and explores a recurring theme throughout Twain's body of work: his uneasy, often critical, attitude towards a rapidly modernizing America. Coinciding with the 175th anniversary of Twain's birth in 1835, the exhibition at the Morgan includes more than 120 manuscripts and rare books, letters, notebooks, diaries, photographs, and drawings associated with the author's life and work.