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 ...

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

We tend to think of celebrity as a modern phenomenon, but Mark Twain first mapped out this territory more than a hundred years ago. So vivid was his presence and captivating his wit that he is ...