Ron Chernow

Ron Chernow is a biographer and journalist whose first book, The House of Morgan, a history of the banking dynasty, won the 1990 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Washington: A Life won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and his life of Alexander Hamilton inspired the Broadway musical Hamilton, on which he served as historical consultant. He also won the George S. Eccles Prize for economic writing for The Warburgs.