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

An Australian island paradise is for sale on the Karuah River, just two hours north of Sydney. Boogee Boogee Island is a ...

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

The riverboat captain is a storyteller. Captain Don Sanders shares the stories of his long association with the river — from ...

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

Actor and historian Doug Riley appeared as Mark Twain at the Brooke County Public Library on April 24. Riley offered a look ...

James,” by Percival Everett won the fiction prize, and Jason Roberts received the biography prize for “Every Living Thing.” ...

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