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

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

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

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

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow is known for writing massive biographies of the country’s most enduring figures, ...

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

In the late 19th century, a letter addressed to “Mark Twain, God Knows Where” was delivered to him. That was celebrity before there existed the supposedly indispensable mechanisms of celebrity ...

More than a century after his death, Mark Twain ... patience and care, Twain’s journey over nearly eight tumultuous decades. Mr. Chernow’s tale is enlivened by blazing quotes from Twain ...

Among his many aphorisms, Mark Twain is credited with this: “I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” Biographer Ron Chernow was evidently short on time ...

Grant and Alexander Hamilton. So it comes as no surprise that his biography of author and humorist Mark Twain clocks in at more than 1,000 pages. It’s also forgivable, considering that Twain was ...

The comedian received the Kennedy Center's 26th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Fred Armisen appeared in video bumpers portraying people from O'Brien's past – Harvard’s dean of students ...