Noted Mark Twain scholar Robert H. Hirst, curator of the Mark Twain Papers and general editor of the Mark Twain Project at the University of California-Berkeley, delivered a lecture April 23 to celebrate Cornell University Library's exhibition, "Known to Everyone, Liked by All: The Business of Being Mark Twain."
The exhibition, curated by librarian Lance Heidig, commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, the American icon known to the world as Mark Twain.