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

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 ...

In the heart of Hannibal, Missouri, the town that shaped a young Mark Twain, a quietly remarkable home invites visitors to ...

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." ...

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

But then he never would have become Mark Twain — with all the heartache, frustration and dadgum bother (as he might put it) ...

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

We tend to think of celebrity as a modern phenomenon, but Mark Twain first mapped out this territory more than a hundred years ago. So vivid was his presence and captivating his wit that he is ...