Ron Chernow
American biographer and journalist
Ron Chernow is an American biographer and journalist who won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for Washington: A Life. His book Alexander Hamilton inspired the Hamilton musical.
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Born 1949 in Brooklyn, United States
About Ron Chernow
Ron Chernow was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1949. He studied English Literature at Yale College and Cambridge University, then worked as a freelance journalist and wrote more than sixty articles for national publications. His first book, The House of Morgan, won the 1990 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Titan, his biography of John D. Rockefeller, was a national bestseller and a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Chernow later wrote Washington: A Life, which earned him the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. His biography Alexander Hamilton inspired the Hamilton musical, and he worked on the show as a historical consultant.