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

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

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

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

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

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

Conan O'Brien is the latest recipient of the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. See highlights from the ceremony, from Trump jokes to moving tributes from John Mulaney, Kumail ...

Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about literary culture. This week’s installment tests your knowledge of ...

The Kennedy Center has awarded The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor since 1998 to recognize comedians and people in the ...

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 a ...

Hamilton' Author Ron Chernow's New Book Takes on an Icon of American Letters, Mark Twain NEW YORK (AP) — Historian Ron Chernow's latest work may surprise readers who know him best for the book ...

NEW YORK — Historian Ron Chernow's latest work may surprise readers who know him best for the book which inspired the musical “Hamilton” and for his biographies of George Washington and ...