Ron Chernow
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About
A Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, he published biographies of John D. Rockefeller and Alexander Hamilton, among other historical and political figures. He received the National Book Award for The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance.
Before Fame
He graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1970.
Trivia
He won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for Washington: A Life.
Family Life
He was married to Valerie S. Chernow from 1979 until her death in 2006.
Associated With
His biography of Alexander Hamilton was nominated for the National Book Critics' Circle Award in 2004.
