My quest for a true literary experience resulted in choucroute, a surprise organ feast, an epiphany at the Louvre, ...

It’s that dark side, usually cloaked by legend, that dominates Ron Chernow’s massive new biography. Following on his popular ...

Mark Twain” is from Ron Chernow, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of biographies of Alexander Hamilton (Chernow’s biography is the source of the hit Broadway musical), George Washington, and Ulysses ...

Samuel Langhorne Clemens may well have led a happier life if he had remained a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi. But then ...

Ron Chernow has written biographies about great men before but in Mark Twain he tackled a larger than life character known for literary classics and full of contradictions.

A new book unpacks Jim in Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" — a fictional enslaved Black man who is one of ...

You know Mark Twain’s story. You’ve got no excuse not to; there have been so many biographies. Starting in the American South ...

In Mark Twain, a doorstopper of a biography, Ron Chernow examines Twain’s family history, boyhood and career and much more.

Ron Chernow’s exceptional biography devours the life’s work of Mark Twain, the perfect American writer who lived an imperfect ...

Mark Twain Tonight!,” originally created and performed by Hal Holbrook and now starring Richard Thomas, will be at ...