We watch as Twain lunges from coast to coast ... several thousand magazine articles and some 12,000 letters. “Mark Twain had not only moved people to laughter and tears with his books ...

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 ...

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

Chernow specializes in big American lives. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of George Washington, and another of his works inspired Lin Manuel Miranda to make Alexander Hamilton into a ...

IN THE late 19th century, a letter addressed to “Mark Twain, God Knows Where” was delivered to him. That was celebrity before there existed the supposedly indispensable mechanisms of celebrity ...

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

This was just kind of pouring out of her and her letters. On the other hand, the more you know about Mark Twain, the more you know that he could never have married a poor woman. “And the irony ...

This was just kind of pouring out of her and her letters. On the other hand, the more you know about Mark Twain, the more you know that he could never have married a poor woman. “And the irony ...