I continue to read Mark Twain’s secondary books — the ones beyond the classics “Huckleberry Finn” and “Tom Sawyer.” My most ...

The latest book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and Ulysses S. Grant ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer's latest book delves into the life, complexities and sardonic humor of a man who ...

Mark Twain’s book “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” about a mischievous Missouri boy and his friends – including Becky Thatcher ...

In our age of distraction, the arts appear to be responding in kind, shrinking and streamlining themselves to capture what ...

America's best known and most revered storyteller, Mark Twain (1835-1910), is remembered for his novels, satirical punditry and travel writings, but is rarely thought of as a political thinker and ...

“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 ...

‘Hamilton’ biographer Ron Chernow probes Mark Twain’s dark side Unrelenting gloom and compulsive spending, hidden under the legend of the incisive and witty author.

Biographer Ron Chernow on Mark Twain A new biography of American novelist Mark Twain goes in depth on his life and career.

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

Even Twain’s lesser-known works are addressed. Twain comes alive in the pages of Chernow’s biography, which shows how much he was influenced by his wife and her “delicate restraining hand.” ...