Ron Chernow

Ron Chernow is an American biographer and journalist born in 1949, educated in English literature at Yale and Cambridge. He is known for large-scale, deeply researched biographies that combine archival detail with novelistic storytelling. His debut, The House of Morgan, won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, and he later wrote major works on figures such as John D. Rockefeller and Alexander Hamilton. Chernow’s writing is widely recognized for its scope, narrative momentum, and ability to render complex historical lives with psychological depth and cultural context.