The Pulitzer-winning presidential biographer discusses his new book about the life of a literary founding father.

Ron Chernow’s sweeping new biography explores how the “Huckleberry Finn” author became such a fixture in American literature ...

Ron Chernow traces the life of a profound, unpredictable and irascibly witty writer.

An epic new biography of Samuel Clemens confirms the Missourian’s literary mastery but contends that the most important character he ever created was his own. At this moment of deep political division ...

The Hamilton and Grant biographer, out with a new study on Mark Twain, speaks to VF about the best and worst of the iconic ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow chronicles the life of one of the nation's most beloved humorists and writers in ...

Back in March, a group of comic luminaries — from John Mulaney to Nikki Glaser — gathered at the Kennedy Center to celebrate O'Brien for receiving the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

When O’Brien’s former sidekick, Andy Richter, took the Kennedy Center stage at the 2025 Mark Twain Prize ceremony, he introduced a new edition of a classic Late Night bit in which O’Brien ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow about his new book, "Mark Twain," in which he illuminates the complex life of the writer.

The book on Twain has been in Chernow's thoughts for decades, dating back to when he saw Hal Holbrook play him on stage in ...

Grant and Alexander Hamilton. So it comes as no surprise that his biography of author and humorist Mark Twain clocks in at more than 1,000 pages. Pulitzer Prize winning author Ron Chernow is known ...