Home - Icelandic Saga Database. Ian Rankin’s Official Website, Doors Open Out Now, Exit Music out now, Updates from Ian, Creating Rebus gallery, Rankin Newsletter. James Gleick: Bits in the Ether. Mark Twain at Play - University of California, Berkeley. Mark Twain was a hardworking and prolific writer, but how did he spend his time when the "bread-and-butter element" was put aside and he was free to relax and amuse himself?
He was a lover of music and song, of cats and cigars, of charades and games; he was an enthusiastic inventor, an obsessive billiards player, a charismatic raconteur, a mischievous correspondent, and perhaps the most sought-after luncheon and dinner guest in America. These many and varied leisure pursuits—and how Mark Twain's "play" influenced his "work"—are the subject of "Mark Twain at Play. " The exhibition brings together manuscripts, documents, notebooks, albums, vintage photographs, and other artifacts from The Bancroft Library's Mark Twain Papers.