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 ...

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

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 ...

What we get wrong about Mark Twain. Ron Chernow’s sweeping new biography explores how the ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author became such a fixture in American literature and life, despite his failings.

A CBS production crew was in Hannibal during the Memorial Day Weekend, filming footage and conducting interviews during the ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow about his new book, "Mark Twain," in which he illuminates the complex life of the writer.

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

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 ...

Author Samuel Longhorne Clemens, better known under his pen name of Mark Twain, grew up along the Mississippi River and used that setting for his classics, such as 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow joined KCUR's Up To Date to discuss his latest book, "Mark Twain," which paints a nuanced portrait of a complicated American author from the ...

The biographer Ron Chernow has written about the Rockefellers and the Morgans. His book about George Washington won a Pulitzer Prize. His book about Alexander Hamilton was adapted into a hit ...