Ron Chernow, Mark Twain with Rainy Day Books

Schedule

Thu Jun 05 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Unity Temple on the Plaza | Kansas City, MO

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Enjoy an evening with New York Times bestselling author Ron Chernow, in Kansas City.
About this Event

Join Rainy Day Books at Unity Temple to celebrate New York Times bestselling author, Ron Chernow's newest book, Mark Twain.

This event includes an author talk from Ron and a pre-signed book.


The Book

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. Drawing on Twain’s bountiful archives, including his fifty notebooks, thousands of letters, and hundreds of unpublished manuscripts, Chernow masterfully captures a man whose career reflected the country’s westward expansion, industrialization, and foreign wars. No other white author of his generation grappled so fully with the legacy of slavery after the Civil War or showed such keen interest in African American culture. Today, more than one hundred years after his death, Twain’s writing continues to be read, debated, and quoted. 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.


The Author

Ron Chernow is the prizewinning author of seven previous books and the recipient of the 2015 National Humanities Medal. His first book, The House of Morgan, won the National Book Award, Washington: A Life won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and Alexander Hamilton—the inspiration for the Broadway musical—won the George Washington Book Prize. He has twice been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and is one of only three living biographers to have won the Gold Medal in Biography of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A past president of PEN America, Chernow has been the recipient of nine honorary doctorates.

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Unity Temple on the Plaza, 707 West 47th Street, Kansas City, United States

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