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

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

Samuel Langhorne Clemens may well have led a happier life if he had remained a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi. But then he never would have become Mark Twain — with all the heartache ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow chronicles the life of one of the nation's most beloved humorists and writers in ...

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

Rock and Roll Hall of Famers the Doobie Brothers discuss their legendary hits, their harmonious connection, new album "Walk This Road." ...

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 ...

In the late 19th century, Mark Twain was arguably the most famous author in the world, with classics like “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876) and “Life on the Mississippi” (1883) cementing his ...

Mark Twain Tonight!,” originally created and performed by Hal Holbrook and now starring Richard Thomas, will be at ...