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

To borrow a line attributed to Mark Twain, riffing on a different controversy ... who in his 1924 book Hannibal Crosses the Alps tells us that as a teenager he set out, fruitlessly, to ...

Rodgers later wrote that when he met Larry Hart, quote “I acquired a career ... Their next big hit came in 1927 with a stage adaptation of Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur ...

Ron Chernow has written biographies about great men before but in Mark Twain he tackled a larger than life character known ...

From his childhood, Samuel Clemens was devoted to showmanship, exaggeration and the joy of a tall tale.

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

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

Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.

The comedian received the Kennedy Center's 26th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Fred Armisen appeared in video bumpers portraying people from O'Brien's past – Harvard’s dean of students ...

This week’s installment tests your knowledge of Mark Twain, one of America’s most popular authors. In the five multiple-choice questions below, tap or click on the answer you think is correct.

Biographer Ron Chernow on how the author of ‘Huckleberry Finn’ made himself one of the world’s most recognizable brands.