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

The book on Twain has been in Chernow's thoughts for decades, dating back to when he saw Hal Holbrook play him on stage in ...

NEW YORK — Historian Ron Chernow's latest work may surprise ... of George Washington and Ulysses Grant. The 1,200-page “Mark Twain” will be published next week. It’s Chernow’s first ...

Mark Twain was America’s first celebrity ... the narration of the teenaged Huck with that of the slave Jim. Ron Chernow writes books about men of great ambition ranging from President Ulysses ...

Ron Chernow’s Mark Twain forces a similar conclusion about its subject: clearly an idiot, and a born sucker. This conclusion will shock anyone who knows Twain only through his writing ...