The Hamilton and Grant biographer, out with a new study on Mark Twain, speaks to VF about the best and worst of the iconic ...

In fact, argues Ron Chernow in a titanic new biography, Twain was “the largest literary personality that America has produced ...

Ron Chernow’s sweeping new biography explores how the “Huckleberry Finn” author became such a fixture in American literature ...

When Elder Quentin L. Cook was a young college student, a university professor that he enjoyed quoted that bit of Twain in ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow is known for writing massive biographies of the country’s most enduring figures, ...

Chernow’s “Mark Twain” is well worth that length to learn ... and is strongest when it tells the relationship Twain had with the written word. Chernow writes that “words were his catharsis ...