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

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

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

By noon Sunday, regional actor Kelley Elder was already applying makeup to his face inside one of the dressing rooms at Theatre Workshop of Owensboro’s Trinity Centre. It was ahead of Elder’s third of ...

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

This historic Connecticut spot attracts enormous numbers of visitors from across the state, as well as many other states.

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

The new executive director of the Mark Twain House & Museum will be Jeffrey L. Nichols, who was previously CEO of one of the ...

Ron Chernow confirms the Twain's literary mastery but contends that the most important character he ever created was his own.

By the 1980s, Florida's Disney site had begun to expand into the magical juggernaut that it is today. Curious, futuristic ...