One of the most eagerly awaited books of the year, Ron Chernow’s new biography of Mark Twain covers all aspects of the life of the most famous American writer of his time. The book, released on March ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow is known for writing massive biographies of the country's most enduring figures, including Ulysses S. Grant and Alexander Hamilton. So it comes as no surprise ...

The best seller is the first of the three-volume “Autobiography of Mark Twain,” the iconoclastic author's private thoughts dictated during his life with the stipulation they not be published until he ...

"Something at once awful and sublime" (1835-39) -- "The white town, drowsing ..." (1839) -- Of words and the Word (1840-42) -- The Hannibal decade (1843-53 ...

The Territorial Enterprise building where Twain began his writing career burned down in a fire nearly a decade after the ...

OF the first fifteen chapters of Mr. Clemens’s book, 1 twelve are reprinted from The Atlantic; but they are so full of entertaining and instructive matter that they will repay a second reading. In the ...

Pulitzer Prize winning author Ron Chernow is known for writing massive biographies of the country's most enduring figures, including Ulysses S. Grant and Alexander Hamilton. So it comes as no surprise ...