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

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

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) ...

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

A couple of recommended fiction books this month are Sarah Moss’s Ripeness (Picador), an impressive story of love and ...

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 ...