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My quest for a true literary experience resulted in choucroute, a surprise organ feast, an epiphany at the Louvre, ...

Along with punching out impressive drum parts, he brought Tolkien, Twain and Wilde to bear on the world of prog. Here are ...

You know Mark Twain’s story. You’ve got no excuse not to; there have been so many biographies. Starting in the American South ...

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

Six months, a steamship, and a world of observation – such was Mark Twain’s grand tour, meticulously chronicled in “Following the Equator.” One might think that a journey around ...

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

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

Mark Twain” is from Ron Chernow, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of biographies of Alexander Hamilton (Chernow’s biography is the source of the hit Broadway musical), George Washington, and Ulysses ...

Mark Twain Tonight!,” originally created and performed by Hal Holbrook and now starring Richard Thomas, will be at ...