Pulitzer Prize winning author Ron Chernow chronicles the life of one of the nation's most beloved humorists and writers in ...

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

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 ...

Mark Twain gave us inimitable characters such as Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. He was no less creative in styling himself as ...

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

Biographer Ron Chernow on how the author of ‘Huckleberry Finn’ made himself one of the world’s most recognizable brands.

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

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

The great American writer witnessed the forging of his nation – but Ron Chernow’s portrait cannot see beyond its subject.

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