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

M ore than a century after his death, Mark Twain remains one of the most recognizable voices in American literature—the ...

The book on Twain has been in Chernow's thoughts for decades, dating back to when he saw Hal Holbrook play him on stage in ...

Ron Chernow’s Mark Twain forces a similar conclusion about its subject: clearly an idiot, and a born sucker. This conclusion ...

Chernow specializes in big American lives. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of George Washington, and another of his ...

Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.

NEW YORK (AP) — Historian Ron Chernow’s latest work may surprise readers who know him best for the book which inspired ... The 1,200-page “Mark Twain” will be published next week.

NEW YORK — Historian Ron Chernow's latest work may surprise readers who know him best for the book which inspired ... The 1,200-page “Mark Twain” will be published next week.