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 ...

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

It's time for our annual "Summer Beach Reads" episode on Dying to Ask. The 2025 summer titles will not disappoint.

Andy Kaufman Is Me,' which premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival today, has heavyweight producers in David Letterman and ...

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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 ...

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

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HANNIBAL, Mo. — The Mark Twain Memorial Bridge is closed in both directions for rehabilitation work. The work is scheduled ...

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