Mark Twain wrote literary classics such as "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," but as Ron Chernow's hefty biography of him shows, he also nursed grudges and suffered great losses. (Hulton Archive ...

Mark Twain: "As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep and never to refrain when awake." Credit: WikiMedia In March ...

Mark Twain was America’s first celebrity, a multiplatform entertainer loved and recognized all over the world. Fans from America to Europe to Australia bought his books and flocked to his one ...

Chernow’s “Mark Twain” is well worth that length to learn more about the author best known for introducing readers to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Chernow’s book aptly portrays Twain ...

In his last, most pathetic years, Mark Twain threw himself behind the crackpot theory that the true author of Shakespeare’s plays may have been Francis Bacon. The penultimate book that Twain ...

I forgot to put in the yacht race!” At 1,174 pages, Ron Chernow’s “Mark Twain” is essentially the same length as “War and Peace,” but seemingly nothing has been overlooked or left out.

MARK TWAIN, by Ron Chernow Ron Chernow’s new biography of Mark Twain is enormous, bland and remote — it squats over Twain’s career like a McMansion. Chernow, who has previously written lives ...

Upon entering, they immediately experienced difficulty in breathing and began signalling for help. They were quickly pulled out, and later revealed that the well contained only waist-deep water ...

The 1,200-page “Mark Twain” will be published next week. It’s Chernow’s first release since his Grant biography came out in 2017, and the first time he has taken on a literary writer after ...

His book about Alexander Hamilton was adapted into a hit Broadway musical. Now, in “Mark Twain,” Chernow turns to the life of the author and humorist who became one of the 19th century’s ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Biographer Ron Chernow, 76, said he found much to identify with Mark Twain, the subject of his latest book. Andy Kropa/Andy Kropa/Invision/AP Share Historian ...

Why couldn’t she fix the problems? The 1,200-page “Mark Twain” will be published next week. It’s Chernow’s first release since his Grant biography came out in 2017, and the first time he ...