Historian Ron Chernow’s latest work may surprise readers who know him best for the book which inspired the musical “Hamilton” ...

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

The Kennedy Center has awarded The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor since 1998 to recognize comedians and people in the ...

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 ...

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 ...