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

Ron Chernow traces the life of a profound, unpredictable and irascibly witty writer.

By Alexandra Alter Joumana Khatib and Gregory Cowles Nineteen books were recognized as winners ... Fiction Everett’s reimagining of “Huckleberry Finn” is a subversive homage to Mark Twain ...

“All modern American literature comes from one book by ... have dogged ‘Huckleberry Finn’” for decades. She insists, however, that high school students – Black and white – can benefit ...

The Pulitzers honored the best in journalism from 2024 in 15 categories, along with eight arts categories including books ... of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective ...

In July, an American Sign Language adaptation of the 1985 musical Big River, based on Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and featuring ... travel books, short stories, sketches and, perhaps ...

Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, a powerful ...

Asked about an NPR story citing evidence that Americans are reading fewer books than ever before ... Everett knew that he would amplify a theme in Huckleberry Finn that Twain introduces yet elides – ...

Back then, most photographs were in black and white. If you happen to have old wedding photos of your grandfather or father, today's news might pique your interest. You can bring those decades-old ...

In her debut monograph Vanishing, published by Charcoal Press, Anna Arendt crafts a world that drifts between history and ...