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

Ron Chernow, who wrote the bestselling biography ... has now trained his scholarly eye on Hartford legend Mark Twain. The 1,000-page biography, simply titled “Mark Twain,” will be published ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Mark Twain by Ron Chernow. Penguin Press, 1200 pages. When I first became aware of the imminent publication of a new biography of Mark ...

“The Story of the Bad Little Boy Who Didn’t Come to Grief” (1865): The title says it all. Twain wanted to contrast the child in his story to typical Sunday School stories where dire consequences ...

The truth, of words we needed to hear, a voice from the grave echoing across stages all over the word, brought back to try to ...

Ron Chernow, read by Scott Brick ... s finest biographers with this magisterial account of the life of Mark Twain (1835–1910). Recounting Twain’s Missouri upbringing, Chernow suggests that ...

The Gold Coast Book Fair is back for a second year, expecting crowds of over 5,000. The festival will be held from May 16 to ...