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

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

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

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

The 1,200-page “Mark ... Book Award for “The House of Morgan” and the National Book Critics Circle prize for “Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.” Recommended Videos But a book ...

Among his many aphorisms, Mark ... Twain’s financial life. For every good investment — publishing President Ulysses S. Grant’s posthumous memoirs, for instance — he lost a bundle on books ...

More than a century after his death, Mark Twain remains one of the most recognizable voices in American literature—the author of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876), “Life on the ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Biographer Ron Chernow, 76, said he found much to identify with Mark Twain, the subject of his latest book. Andy Kropa/Andy Kropa/Invision/AP Share Historian ...

Mark Twain wrote literary classics such as "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," but as Ron Chernow's hefty biography of him shows, he also nursed grudges and suffered great losses. (Hulton Archive ...

NEW YORK — Historian Ron Chernow's latest work may surprise readers who know him best for the book which inspired ... The 1,200-page “Mark Twain” will be published next week.