Pulitzer Prize winning author Ron Chernow chronicles the life of one of the nation's most beloved humorists and writers in ...

INCLINE VILLAGE Dressed in his signature white suit, Samuel Clemens picks up his pipe and recalls the time he challenged a ...

The Courant’s arts picks for May 11-17 include Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, Al Stewart and Livingston Taylor, George Clinton and ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Historian Ron Chernow's latest work may surprise readers who know him best for the book which inspired the ...

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 ...

The Washington Post’s longtime book critic Michael Dirda took a break from reading, then delved into some favorites and new ...

But then he never would have become Mark Twain — with all the heartache, frustration and dadgum bother (as he might put it) ...

In the heart of Hannibal, Missouri, the town that shaped a young Mark Twain, a quietly remarkable home invites visitors to ...

In just over three hours on April 19, volunteers removed 7,940 pounds of illegally dumped waste from 10 sites in the Mark ...