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

NEW YORK (AP) — Historian Ron Chernow’s latest work may surprise readers who know him best for the book which inspired the musical “Hamilton” and for his biographies of George Washington and Ulysses ...

a leadsman would yell out “mark twain!” upon lowering a weighted rope measuring 12 feet, to ascertain depth for safe passage. Twain’s comical sketches of the Far West and accounts of his ...

The 1,200-page “Mark Twain” will be published next week ... where his glass of Diet Coke stood on a coaster illustrated with a sketch of Twain receiving an honorary college degree, Chernow ...

The 1,200-page “Mark Twain” will be published next week ... where his glass of Diet Coke stood on a coaster illustrated with a sketch of Twain receiving an honorary college degree, Chernow ...

Mark Twain, known for his curmudgeonly wit and storytelling, is shown as a family man and loving father in "A Family Sketch," a never published tribute to a daughter who inspired two of his ...