Samuel Langhorne Clemens may well have led a happier life if he had remained a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi. But then ...

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

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

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

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

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

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk among American business leaders joining President Donald Trump in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday, May 13. Author Ron Chernow joins Morning Joe to discuss his new ...

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

NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club pick is a new novel from Ocean Vuong, one of the country’s most admired ...

Pulitzer Prize winning author Ron Chernow is known for writing ... biography was more than 1,500 pages long. Chernow’s “Mark Twain” is well worth that length to learn more about the author ...