It’s that dark side, usually cloaked by legend, that dominates Ron Chernow’s massive new biography. Following on his popular works about Hamilton, Washington and Grant, he documents Twain’s failings, ...

In Mark Twain, a doorstopper of a biography, Ron Chernow examines Twain’s family history, boyhood and career and much more.

It's a game we all like to play - guess which jobs will cease to exist by the time the kids have grown up.

A new book unpacks Jim in Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" — a fictional enslaved Black man who is one of ...

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 ...

Mark Richards To Mark Twain, San Francisco was coffee with fresh ... On a wall inside Swan’s, among photographs and sketches of what appear to be every fish in the sea, hangs a framed 19th ...

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his ...

CBS Photo Archive/Getty; JC Olivera/Getty Though well remembered for helming the sketch comedy series ... earned her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor ...

Ron Chernow’s ‘Mark Twain’ gives readers an honest assessment of beloved author’s life As part of that noodling, a Yelp employee named Bob Goodson sat down on May 18, 2005, and drew a crude sketch of ...

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

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 ...