The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer's latest book delves into the life, complexities and sardonic humor of a man who ...

The latest book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and Ulysses S. Grant ...

The scene that I found often completely captivated, convinced and captured many of my students was in Chapter 15 ...

The Broadway musical “Hamilton” and the historian whose book inspired it are getting the National Constitution Center’s ...

El musical de Broadway “Hamilton” y el historiador cuyo libro lo inspiró recibirán la Medalla de la Libertad del Centro ...

Mark Twain’s book “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” about a mischievous Missouri boy and his friends – including Becky Thatcher ...

Author Samuel Longhorne Clemens, better known under his pen name of Mark Twain, grew up along the Mississippi River and used ...

The prolific biographer Ron Chernow has chronicled the Missouri author's life in a new book titled simply "Mark Twain," that’s already hit the top of The New York Times best-sellers list.

Mark Twain — the subject of a new, 1,033-page biography by Ron Chernow — has been called “the Lincoln of our literature,” but his January 1869 lecture in Danville left ...

A lengthy and remarkably revealing new biography by prize-winning author Ron Chernow ("Mark Twain," Penguin, 2025) highlights Twain's evolution from a parochial pro-Confederacy, anti-abolitionist ...