One of the most eagerly awaited books of the year, Ron Chernow’s new biography of Mark Twain covers all aspects of the life of the most famous American writer of his time. The book, released on March ...

America's best known and most revered storyteller, Mark Twain (1835-1910), is remembered for his novels, satirical punditry and travel writings, but is rarely thought of as a political thinker and ...

The “universal river” that Twain traversed, all he saw and felt and wrote about can’t really be recaptured by a biographer.

A new biography of American novelist Mark Twain goes in depth on his life and career. In Mark Twain, a doorstopper of a biography, Ron Chernow examines Twain’s family history, boyhood and career and ...

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 Twain ...

Chernow will be appearing in Elmira at 7 p.m. Oct. 8 to kick off the fall Trouble Begins lecture series, presented by the ...

Some musings by Mark Twain on religion from various sources: * “Ah, well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God’s fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.” 1878 Twain ...

A taste of Mark Twain is coming to Elmira with the return of Hal Holbrook’s Mark Twain Tonight!, performed by award-winning ...