The Morgan Library and Museum proudly presents She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia, ca. 3400-2000 B.C., opening thuis fall on Oct. 14. The special exhibit will run through Feb. 19, 2023. The exhibition brings together for the first time a comprehensive selection of artworks that capture the rich and shifting expressions of womens lives in ancient Mesopotamia during the late fourth and third millennia BC. It centers on the high priestess and poet Enheduanna (ca. 2300 BC), the worlds first author known by name, who wielded considerable religious and political power. Displaying a spectacular collection of her texts alongside other works made ca. 34002000 BC, She Who Wrote celebrates Enheduannas poetry and her legacy as an author, priestess, and woman while bearing testament to womens diverse roles in religious, social, economic, and political contexts, as goddesses, priestesses, worshippers, mothers, workers, and rulers. The Morgan Library and Museum, formerly the Pierpont Morgan Library, is a museum and research library in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. To learn more, visit www.themorgan.org.