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

Ron Chernow’s Mark Twain forces a similar conclusion about its subject: clearly an idiot, and a born sucker. This conclusion ...

From his childhood, Samuel Clemens was devoted to showmanship, exaggeration and the joy of a tall tale.

Mark Twain gave us inimitable characters such as Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. He was no less creative in styling himself as ...

Historian Ron Chernow's latest work may surprise readers who know him best for the book which inspired the musical “Hamilton” ...

Chernow specializes in big American lives. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of George Washington, and another of his ...

Conan O'Brien is the latest recipient of the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. See highlights from the ceremony, from Trump jokes to moving tributes from John Mulaney, Kumail ...

Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.

The Kennedy Center has awarded The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor since 1998 to recognize comedians and people in the ...

Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about literary culture. This week’s installment tests your knowledge of ...

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 ...