In the late 19th century, Mark Twain was arguably the most famous author in the world, with classics like “The Adventures of ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow is known for writing massive biographies of the country’s most enduring figures, including Ulysses S. Grant and Alexander Hamilton. So it comes as no surprise ...

The new biography of Mark Twain from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow covers all aspects of the life of the Hartford ...

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

Ron Chernow’s sweeping new biography explores how the “Huckleberry Finn” author became such a fixture in American literature ...

The Pulitzer-winning presidential biographer discusses his new book about the life of a literary founding father.

It’s said that when “War and Peace” was finished and about to be published, Tolstoy looked at the huge book and suddenly ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow about his new book, "Mark Twain," in which he illuminates the complex life of the writer.

In fact, argues Ron Chernow in a titanic new biography, Twain was “the largest literary personality that America has produced ...