NEW YORK (AP) — Historian Ron Chernow’s latest work may surprise readers who know him best for the book which inspired the ...

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

Conan O’Brien's Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize is now streaming on Netflix with tributes and hilarious performances.

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

In our weekly late night TV recap, everybody loves Conan O'Brien as he wins the Mark Twain Prize. Plus Amber Ruffin talks to ...

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

Mark Twain was America’s first celebrity, a multiplatform entertainer loved and recognized all over the world. Fans from America to Europe to Australia bought his books and flocked to his one ...

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 ...

His many honors include the Pulitzer Prize ... Mark Twain did fit the stereotype of the funny man who’s sad and depressed under the surface and is kind of releasing that through the humor.” ...