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

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

The scene that I found often completely captivated, convinced and captured many of my students was in Chapter 15 ...

Ron Chernow has written biographies about great men before but in Mark Twain he tackled a larger than life character known ...

In the late 19th century, Mark Twain was arguably the most famous author in the world, with classics like “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876) and “Life on the Mississippi” (1883) cement… ...

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

Mark Twain took great pleasure in living up to the title he invented for himself: "the most conspicuous man on the planet." As he told an audience two years before his death on April 21, 1910, "If ...

An author who was appreciated equally by Wall Street and Main Street, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, or Mark Twain was one of the greatest American authors of all time. Replete with aphorisms, social ...

He will discuss the book at the Mark Twain House Aug. 19 at an event that will include a reception and food (probably local, in the spirit of Twain).

By comparison, Justin Kaplan’s penetrating 1966 biography, “Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain,” which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, came in at a brisk 424 pages.