In fact, argues Ron Chernow in a titanic new biography, Twain was “the largest literary personality that America has produced ...

Ron Chernow’s sweeping new biography explores how the “Huckleberry Finn” author became such a fixture in American literature ...

An epic new biography of Samuel Clemens confirms the Missourian’s literary mastery but contends that the most important character he ever created was his own. At this moment of deep political division ...

Ron Chernow confirms the Twain's literary mastery but contends that the most important character he ever created was his own.

In the late 19th century, a letter addressed to “Mark Twain, God Knows Where” was delivered to him. That was celebrity before ...