Ron Chernow
 Ronald Chernow (born March 3 1949) is an American writer journalist historian and biographer. He has written bestselling and award-winning biographies of historical figures from the world of business finance and American politics. Historian Andrew Cayton says Chernow is no ordinary writer. Like his popular biographies of John D. Rockefeller and Alexander Hamilton his Washington while long is vivid and well paced.