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 ...

“Mark Twain” is from Ron Chernow, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of biographies of Alexander Hamilton (Chernow’s biography is the source of the hit Broadway musical), George Washington, and Ulysses ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow is known for writing massive biographies of the country’s most enduring figures, including Ulysses S. Grant and Alexander Hamilton. So it comes as no surprise ...

Mark Twain changed the rules of American fiction when, in Huckleberry Finn, he let a redneck kid tell his story in his own dialect. But the brilliant satirist had a hard time figuring out what rules ...

A hundred years in the making, it’s the hottest Christmas present to ever come out of a University Press. The Autobiography of Mark Twain debuted at #2 on the New York Times Bestseller list and six ...

The cover of Mark Twain's Autobiography has been unveiled by Fantagraphics Books. Michael Kupperman's book tells the story of the Adventures of Tom Sawyer author's life between 1910 and 2010. What to ...

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN (388 pp.)—Edited by Charles Neider—Harper ($6). “I am not alive. I am dead,” wrote Mark Twain. “I wish to keep that fact plainly before the readers. If I were alive I ...

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