It's been a decade since Hamilton burst onto the Broadway stage. Born from Lin-Manuel Miranda and inspired by Ron Chernow’s ...

The Continental Army, created in June of 1775, had warily welcomed its new leader, George Washington, without much fuss. A ...

But 250 years ago today, the real and unspectacular work of American independence was under way. The Continental Army, ...

I may very well be the last person on the literate planet to get wise to BookBub, the over-the-Internet purveyor of (mostly) ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow's latest deep dive explores the remarkable life and complicated personality of America’s first celebrity.

Mark Twain was first encountered by the reviewer as the avuncular, white-haired visage joining the purple-clad Robert Louis Stevenson and the doleful Edgar Allan Poe in childhood card games of ...

The latest book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and Ulysses S. Grant examines the life of one of America's greatest and most beloved writers.

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Eric's mother, Tamara, told us the person responsible for gunning down her son last week ended the life of a compassionate soul.

5. Mark Twain by Ron Chernow (Penguin Press: $45) The Pulitzer-winning biographer explores the life of the celebrated American writer. 6.

Writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, not only redefined American literature in the 1800s; he helped create the very idea of what it meant to be an American ...