Ron Chernow

Ron Chernow is an American biographer whose subjects tend to be the people who built American finance and government. Titan told the life of John D. Rockefeller, Washington: A Life won the Pulitzer Prize, and his Alexander Hamilton was the book Lin-Manuel Miranda picked up on holiday and turned into a musical. Mark Twain is his most recent. His biographies run long and are researched to a depth that makes them the standard reference on their subject.