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

NEW YORK (AP) — Historian Ron Chernow’s latest work may surprise readers who know him best for the book which inspired the ...

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

Captain America inspired an entire generation of fans with a quote about standing up for what’s right, but there’s a dark ...

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

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

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