It’s that dark side, usually cloaked by legend, that dominates Ron Chernow’s massive new biography. Following on his popular ...

In Mark Twain, a doorstopper of a biography, Ron Chernow examines Twain’s family history, boyhood and career and much more.

Ron Chernow’s sweeping new biography explores how the “Huckleberry Finn” author became such a fixture in American literature and life, despite his failings ...

MARK TWAIN, by Ron Chernow Ron Chernow’s new biography of Mark Twain is enormous, bland and remote — it squats over Twain’s career like a McMansion. Chernow, who has previously written lives ...

The prolific biographer Ron Chernow has chronicled the Missouri author's life in a new book titled simply "Mark Twain," that’s already hit the top of The New York Times best-sellers list.

The marquee outside the Hermosa Beach Community Theatre read: Pages Presents An Evening with Ron Chernow. But inside, the ...

Chernow’s “Mark Twain” is well worth that length to learn more about the author best known for introducing readers to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Chernow’s book aptly portrays Twain ...

Ron Chernow’s exceptional biography devours the life’s work of Mark Twain, the perfect American writer who lived an imperfect ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow about his new book, "Mark Twain," in which he illuminates the complex life of the writer. Sponsor Message MICHEL ...

The biographer Ron Chernow has written about the Rockefellers ... was adapted into a hit Broadway musical. Now, in “Mark Twain,” Chernow turns to the life of the author and humorist who ...

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 ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow is known for writing massive biographies of the country’s most enduring figures, including Ulysses S. Grant and Alexander Hamilton. So it comes as no surprise ...