Ron Chernow

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Ronald S. Chernow (born March 3, 1949 in Brooklyn , New York City ) is an American journalist and biographer .

Life

His father was a businessman and his mother an accountant. Ronald was born in Brooklyn. According to his own account, he is not a strict representative of his Jewish faith. In 1966 Ronald Chernow graduated from high school. He then studied English literature at Yale and Cambridge (England) . After graduating (summa cum laude) in 1970, he began a PhD, which he did not finish. From 1973 to 1982 he worked as a freelance journalist for newspapers and magazines. From the beginning of the 1980s he worked for the think tank The Century Foundation , where he headed the department of financial policy studies. With his first two books The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance (1990) and The Warburgs (1993) as well as his collection of essays The Death of the Banker published in 1997, he published three works on the subject Banks. His biography about the dynasty of the banker JP Morgan was awarded a National Book Award and his chronicle about the German-Jewish banking family Warburg was published in German under the title The Warburgs: Odyssey of a Family .

His biography on John D. Rockefeller , published in 1998, was named one of the ten best books of the year by Time and The New York Times . He received a George Washington Book Prize for his 2004 biography of the same name about the founding father of the United States, Alexander Hamilton (the book inspired Lin-Manuel Miranda to write his successful musical Hamilton ). With a Pulitzer Prize for Best Biography , he received the most important book award to date for his biography on George Washington in 2011. For 2015 he received the National Humanities Medal . In 2018 he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

In 2011 Chernow signed a book contract for a biography of Ulysses S. Grant , which was published in 2017.

plant

  • The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance (1990)
  • The Warburgs (1993)
  • The Death of the Banker (1997)
  • Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (1998)
    • John D. Rockefeller: The career of the economic titans, TM-Börsenverlag 2000, 252 pages, ISBN 3-930851-39-3
  • Alexander Hamilton (2004)
  • Washington: A Life (2010)
  • Grant (2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Ron Chernow" in Contemporary Authors Online (Gale, 2011)
  2. ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Chernow, Ron
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chernow, Ronald S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and biographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City