Ron Chernow has written biographies about great men before but in Mark Twain he tackled a larger than life character known for literary classics and full of contradictions.

Ron Chernow’s sweeping new biography explores how the “Huckleberry Finn” author became such a fixture in American literature ...

His family moved to Hannibal, a port town ... This is the first major biography of Twain to appear after Black Lives Matter and #MeToo. Though Twain was progressive for his time — he wrote ...

It’s that dark side, usually cloaked by legend, that dominates Ron Chernow’s massive new biography. Following on his popular ...

Ron Chernow’s Mark Twain forces a similar conclusion about its subject: clearly an idiot, and a born sucker. This conclusion will shock anyone who knows Twain only through his writing, in which the ...

Ron Chernow’s exceptional biography devours the life’s work of Mark Twain, the perfect American writer who lived an imperfect ...

You know Mark Twain’s story. You’ve got no excuse not to; there have been so many biographies. Starting in the American South ...

The marquee outside the Hermosa Beach Community Theatre read: Pages Presents An Evening with Ron Chernow. But inside, the ...

There is, within the larger scope of a biography, an avowed purpose to show ... and the private correspondence of Hannibal Hamlin has been of inestimable value to the author.

They contain more than enough material for a modern narrative treatment, but whether one can extract from them a biography of Hannibal or Scipio is another question. As to their parallel lives, ...