The Hamilton and Grant biographer, out with a new study on Mark Twain, speaks to VF about the best and worst of the iconic ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow is known for writing massive biographies of the country’s most enduring figures, ...

Ron Chernow traces the life of a profound, unpredictable and irascibly witty writer.

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

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 ...

Author Ron Chernow joins Morning Joe to discuss his new biography of Mark Twain.

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

But then he never would have become Mark Twain — with all the heartache, frustration and dadgum bother (as he might put it) ...

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

A host of beloved authors have new books hitting shelves this week, including a memoir by humorist Barry, a Mark Twain bio by ...

M ore than a century after his death, Mark Twain remains one of the most recognizable voices in American literature—the ...