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 ...

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

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

From his childhood, Samuel Clemens was devoted to showmanship, exaggeration and the joy of a tall tale.

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

From the inscription in this copy of "Little Lord Fauntleroy," the book appears to have been a Christmas gift from Twain to his daughter Clara Clemens in 1886. The inscription is signed "From Papa." ...