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

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 ...

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.

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

What to read this May from a superb debut novel to a five-star biography - THE LIST: Martin Chilton shares his May reading ...

Ron Chernow’s biography of Mark Twain, United We Dream co-founder Cristina Jiménez’s debut memoir, and poet and novelist Ocean Vuong’s follow-up to his 2019 novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.