Every year, the books chosen for Pulitzer Prizes add up to a specially curated reading list, and the winners of the 2025 ...

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

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 ...

This year’s Pulitzer Prizes in the arts honour redefinitions of American identity, from a slave’s point of view on the ...

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

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

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

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

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

Jennifer Baechle, 43, has been charged with two counts of second-degree manslaughter in a nearly 14-year-old cold case of a newborn girl dubbed ‘Baby Angel’ found floating in the Mississippi River.