Ron Chernow traces the life of a profound, unpredictable and irascibly witty writer.

The Hamilton and Grant biographer, out with a new study on Mark Twain, speaks to VF about the best and worst of the iconic ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow chronicles the life of one of the nation's most beloved humorists and writers in ...

But then he never would have become Mark Twain — with all the heartache, frustration and dadgum bother (as he might put it) ...

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

Historian Ron Chernow’s latest work may surprise readers who know him best for the book which inspired the musical “Hamilton” ...

Ron Chernow confirms the Twain's literary mastery but contends that the most important character he ever created was his own.

Chernow specializes in big American lives. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of George Washington, and another of his ...

Mark Twain gave us inimitable characters such as Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. He was no less creative in styling himself as ...

A host of beloved authors have new books hitting shelves this week, including a memoir by humorist Barry, a Mark Twain bio by ...

So it comes as no surprise that his biography of author and humorist Mark Twain clocks in at more than 1,000 pages. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow is known for writing massive ...

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.