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.

In Mark Twain, a doorstopper of a biography, Ron Chernow examines Twain’s family history, boyhood and career and much more.

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

Chernow specializes in big American lives. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of George Washington, and another of his works inspired Lin Manuel Miranda to make Alexander Hamilton into a ...

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 ...

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

One of the most eagerly awaited books of the year, Ron Chernow’s new biography of Mark Twain covers all aspects of the life of the most famous American writer of his time. The book, released on ...

Ron Chernow discusses his new biography “Mark Twain” June 10 at 7 p.m. at Immanuel Congregational Church, 10 Woodland St., Hartford ($55 or $125 for a VIP ticket with pretalk reception; both ...