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

It's Chernow's first release since his Grant biography came out in 2017, and the first time he has taken on a literary ...

Mark Twain gave us inimitable characters such as Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. He was no less creative in styling himself as ...

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

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

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.

From his childhood, Samuel Clemens was devoted to showmanship, exaggeration and the joy of a tall tale.

Biographer Ron Chernow on how the author of ‘Huckleberry Finn’ made himself one of the world’s most recognizable brands.