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Biography of Ron Chernow: George Washington Book Prize Winner for Alexander Hamilton
An honors graduate of Yale and Cambridge, Ron Chernow is one of the most distinguished commentators on politics and business in America today. Newsday has hailed him as “one of today’s best writers of history and biography” and Fortune magazine has dubbed him “America’s best business biographer.” His most recent book, the New York Times bestseller ALEXANDER HAMILTON was named by the New York Times as one of the ten best books of the year and by Fortune as the #1 Business Book of 2004. An American Library Association Notable Book of the Year, it is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the George Washington Book Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among others. His first book, The House of Morgan, won the National Book Award as the best non-fiction book of 1990 and is considered a modern classic.
The Modern Library Board voted it one of the 100 best non-fiction books published in the twentieth century. His second book, The Warburgs, won the prestigious George S. Eccles Prize for the best business book of 1993 and was cited by the American Library Association as one of the year’s ten best works. In reviewing his 1997 collection of essays, The Death of the Banker, The New York Times called Mr. Chernow “as elegant an architect of monumental histories as we’ve seen in decades.” His 1998 biography of John D. Rockefeller, entitled Titan, was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award and remained on The New York Times bestseller list for sixteen weeks. Both the Times and Time magazine voted it one of the ten best books of the year while The Times of London praised it as “one of the great American biographies.”
A frequent contributor to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Chernow is a familiar figure on national radio and television shows — he has appeared on “Today,” “NBC Nightly News,” “Nightline,” “Face the Nation,” “World News Tonight with Peter Jennings,” “CBS Evening News,” “Charlie Rose,” “Newshour with Jim Lehrer,” C-Span, CNN, Fox News Channel, CNBC, CNNfn, the History Channel, and National Public Radio — and has appeared in numerous documentaries. Mr. Chernow and his wife Valerie live in Brooklyn, New York.
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