Ron Chernow (born 1949) is an American biographer and historian, educated at Yale and at Cambridge. His books include The House of Morgan, which won the National Book Award in 1990, Titan, a life of John D. Rockefeller, Alexander Hamilton (2004), which became the basis of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical Hamilton, and Grant (2017). Washington: A Life won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2011.
Washington: A Life is Ron Chernow's single-volume biography of George Washington, published in October 2010 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2011. Chernow's central aim is to replace the remote, marble figure of patriotic legend with a man of strong passions, ambition and a fierce temper, held in check by a lifelong discipline of self-command.
