Julian McMahon and Shannen Doherty briefly dated during the making of their classic TV series Charmed. Tragically, the ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer's latest book delves into the life, complexities and sardonic humor of a man who ...

Ron Chernow has written biographies about great men before but in Mark Twain he tackled a larger than life character known ...

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

The scene that I found often completely captivated, convinced and captured many of my students was in Chapter 15 ...

Mark Twain wrote literary classics such as "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," but as Ron Chernow's hefty biography of him shows, he also nursed grudges and suffered great losses. (Hulton Archive ...

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, was one of America’s finest writers, essayists, and humorists.His literary masterpieces, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The ...

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.

In commenting on this episode, William Dean Howells, his close friend, said that Mark Twain as a white man, held himself personally responsible for what the white race had done to the black race.