The river gave the author his name: the cry “mark twain” from a boatman meant that the river was of safely navigable depth. To him the river represented liberty and a connection to the wider ...

Mark Twain and fellow novelist George Washington Cable in 1884, when they shared top billing in a lecture series later dubbed the “Twins of Genius” tour. Courtesy of The Mark Twain House ...

MARK TWAIN, by Ron Chernow Ron Chernow’s new biography of Mark Twain is enormous, bland and remote — it squats over Twain’s career like a McMansion.

Chernow, the prizewinning biographer of Alexander Hamilton and George Washington, tracks several themes throughout these pages, most notably Twain’s attitudes toward Black people and his gradual ...

Yes, George takes readers back to the days of Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain.

More than a century after his death, Mark Twain remains one of the most recognizable voices in American literature—the author of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876), “Life on the ...

Samuel Langhorne Clemens was initially, and ever after as Mark Twain, a writer. But after the huge success of the first of his many books and pamphlets, “The Innocents Abroad” (1869), it was ...

This article is adapted from his new book, “Mark Twain,” which will be published May 13 by Penguin Press. Mark Twain Was the Original American Celebrity© Underwood Archives/Getty Images ...

Historian Ron Chernow’s latest work is a 1,200-page biography of Mark Twain.

The biographer Ron Chernow has written about the Rockefellers and the Morgans. His book about George Washington won a Pulitzer Prize. His book about Alexander Hamilton was adapted into a hit ...

‘Mark Twain’ Review: The Most American Writer From his childhood, Samuel Clemens was devoted to showmanship, exaggeration and the joy of a tall tale.