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

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

Julian McMahon and Shannen Doherty briefly dated during the making of their classic TV series Charmed. Tragically, the ...

Ron Chernow’s new biography of Mark Twain is enormous, bland and remote — it squats over Twain’s career like a McMansion. Chernow, who has previously written lives of financial titans, war ...

And that is how Mark Twain got to Paris. These letters formed the spine of The Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrim’s Progress , which sold more than 70,000 copies the year it was published.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, was one of America’s finest writers, essayists, and humorists.His literary masterpieces, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The ...

The Mark Twain closely associated with Hannibal rarely returned to it. By the time Twain began writing Huckleberry Finn , he had given up on the South and transformed from barefoot Missouri rascal ...

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 ...

Prelude. The Pilot House. From the time he was a small boy in Hannibal, Missouri, the Mississippi River had signified freedom for Samuel Langhorne Clemens (later known as Mark Twain), a place ...

You know, so I think that even as he is correcting Mark Twain, he’s been honoring Mark Twain at the same time. And also he is got an enormous number of people to go back and read the Adventures ...