Ron Chernow

Ron Chernow, an American biographer and journalist, was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1949. His father owned a discount store and founded a stock brokerage firm, and his mother was a bookkeeper. He was class president and valedictorian at Forest Hills High School in Queens, graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1970, and studied English literature at Pembroke College, Cambridge. From 1973 to 1982 he wrote more than sixty articles as a freelance journalist, and he later directed financial policy studies at the Twentieth Century Fund before returning to writing in 1986. His first book, The House of Morgan (1990), a history of the banking dynasty, won the National Book Award for Nonfiction. He went on to write The Warburgs, Titan, a life of John D. Rockefeller (1998), and Alexander Hamilton (2004), which inspired Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical Hamilton, on which Chernow served as historical consultant. Washington: A Life (2010) won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2011. He married Valerie Stearn in 1979; she died in 2006.

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Faith: Gives his religion as 'Jewish, though more in the breach than the observance'. Source: Wikipedia