Ron Chernow Book Event – sold out

SOLD OUT EVENT – We are taking names for a waitlist in case of cancellations. To be put on the list, call the museum at 573-221-9010 ext.403

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow will release his work on Mark Twain May 13th, 2025. Mr. Chernow will speak at the Boyhood Home and Museum June 29th, 2025 at 2 pm about the book and field questions from the audience.

A limited number of tickets will be available for the event. The price of the ticket will include a signed copy of the biography and access to The Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum historic campus and properties.

SOLD OUT Tickets are $45 and can be purchased here: https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/marktwainmuseum/items/618389/?full-items=yes&flow=865562

 

About the book:

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow illuminates the full, fascinating, and complex life of the writer long celebrated as the father of American literature, Mark Twain

Ron Chernow, the highly lauded biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and Ulysses S. Grant, brings his considerable powers to bear on America’s first, and most influential, literary celebrity, Mark Twain. Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, under Halley’s Comet, the rambunctious Twain was an early teller of tall tales. He left his home in Missouri at an early age, piloted steamboats on the Mississippi, and arrived in the Nevada Territory during the silver-mining boom. Before long, he had accepted a job at the local newspaper, where he barged into vigorous discourse and debate, hoaxes and hijinks. After moving to San Francisco, he published stories that attracted national attention for their brashness and humor, writing under a pen name soon to be immortalized.

In this brilliant work of scholarship, a moving tribute to the writer’s talent and humanity, Chernow reveals the magnificent and often maddening life of one of the most original characters in American history.