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

From his childhood, Samuel Clemens was devoted to showmanship, exaggeration and the joy of a tall tale.

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 ...

You'll get access to an ad-free website with a faster photo browser, the chance to claim free tickets to a host of events (including everything from Summerfest to the Milwaukee Film Festival), access ...

The owner of the Historic Near Westside Historic District and director of Mark Twain tours welcomed people to step back in ...

Chernow specializes in big American lives. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of George Washington, and another of his ...

Samuel Langhorne Clemens may well have led a happier life if he had remained a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi. But then ...

In the heart of Hannibal, Missouri, the town that shaped a young Mark Twain, a quietly remarkable home invites visitors to ...

Penguin Press will publish Ron Chernow’s biography on Mark Twain next week, on May 13. A recent article by Lauren Michele Jackson in this week’s edition of the magazine, the “New Yorker,” reviewed ...

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

HANNIBAL — The Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum continues being recognized as a Blue Star Museum in 2025.