Writings
Recognized as a noted Mark Twain scholar, Skandera Trombley's fifth book, Mark Twain's Other Woman: The Hidden Story of His Final Years was published by Knopf in March 2010. She is also the author of Mark Twain in the Company of Women (1994) and co-editor (with Michael Kiskis) of the volume Constructing Mark Twain: New Directions in Scholarship (2002). She appeared in the 2002 Ken Burns documentary titled "Mark Twain" and was invited to a White House literary symposium on American authors. In addition, she is the editor of Critical Essays on Maxine Hong Kingston (1998); and co-author of Epistemology: Turning Points in the History of Poetic Knowledge (1986). Since becoming president at Pitzer, she has published op-ed pieces in the Chronicle of Higher Education on the challenges faced by women in higher education administration and access to college in California, in the Los Angeles Times on the merits of the SAT exams as predictors of college success and on The Daily Beast on Mark Twain as the first American celebrity.
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