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

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

In the late 19th century, Mark Twain was arguably the ... “The girls never reported forbidden sexual overtures from Twain,” writes Chernow. “They played billiards and hearts and engaged ...

Writing a biography of Mark ... Twain, though, was reckless, sinking enormous sums into boondoggles like the Paige Compositor, which aimed to replace human typesetters. Twain sunk some $8 million in ...

It’s also forgivable, considering that Twain was such a colossal figure in American literature and history that his authorized biography was more than 1,500 pages long. Chernow’s “Mark Twain ...

But then he never would have become Mark Twain — with all the heartache, frustration and dadgum bother (as he might put it) that job entailed. It’s that dark side, usually cloaked beneath ...

Grant and Alexander Hamilton. So it comes as no surprise that his biography of author and humorist Mark Twain clocks in at more than 1,000 pages. It's also forgivable, considering that Twain was ...

Yes, George takes readers back to the days of Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. George was pleased ... of both of these nuclear powers might never learn.

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

This is FRESH AIR. Last December, Conan O'Brien was selected by the Kennedy Center as the next recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. In February, newly reelected President Trump ...