Ron Chernow traces the life of a profound, unpredictable and irascibly witty writer.

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 ...

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

Historian Ron Chernow’s latest work may surprise readers who know him best for the book which inspired the musical “Hamilton” ...

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

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

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

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.

Historian Ron Chernow's latest work may surprise readers ... of George Washington and Ulysses Grant. The 1,200-page “Mark Twain” will be published next week. It's Chernow's first release ...