Chernow was an assistant professor of languages and social sciences at the New York City College of Technology. He married Valerie Stearn in 1979 she died in January 2006. He says that in politics he is a 'disgruntled Democrat' and gives his religion as 'Jewish, though more in the breach than the observance.' He began but did not finish a PhD program.

Chernow graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1970 and Pembroke College at Cambridge University with degrees in English literature. Chernow was voted 'Most Likely to Succeed', and was Class President and Valedictorian when he graduated in 1966 from Forest Hills High School in Queens, New York. He is brother to Bart Chernow and uncle to Shandee Chernow. His father Israel was the owner of a discount store and creator of a stock brokerage firm his mother Ruth was a bookkeeper. Ronald Chernow was born on March 3, 1949, in Brooklyn, New York. As a freelance journalist, he has written over sixty articles in national publications. Eccles Prize for Excellence in Economic Writing. Another book, The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family, was honored with the 1993 George S. Rockefeller (1998) were both nominated for National Book Critics Circle Awards, while the former served as the inspiration for the popular Hamilton musical, for which Chernow worked as a historical consultant. His biographies of Alexander Hamilton (2004) and John D. He is also the recipient of the National Book Award for Nonfiction for his 1990 book The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance.

He won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the 2011 American History Book Prize for his 2010 book Washington: A Life. He has written bestselling historical non-fiction biographies. Ronald Chernow ( / ˈ tʃ ɜːr n aʊ/ born March 3, 1949) is an American writer, journalist and biographer.

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