Historian Ron Chernow's latest work may surprise readers who know him best for the book which inspired the musical “Hamilton” ...

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

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

Chernow specializes in big American lives. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of George Washington, and another of his ...

M ore than a century after his death, Mark Twain remains one of the most recognizable voices in American literature—the ...

But then he never would have become Mark Twain — with all the heartache, frustration and dadgum bother (as he might put it) ...

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