Chernow biographies

Ron Chernow Ronald Chernow (/ ˈtʃɜːrnaʊ /; [1][2] born March 3, ) is an American writer, journalist, and biographer. He has written bestselling historical non-fiction biographies. Chernow won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the American History Book Prize for his book Washington: A Life. Ron Chernow, the highly lauded biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and Ulysses S. Grant, brings his considerable powers to bear on America’s first, and most influential, literary celebrity, Mark Twain. Early years First steps Professional growth Public recognition Peak period Later years Public interest Professional activity Media attention
Chernow’s biography of Washington, for example, sweeps its readers almost effortlessly through an eight-hundred-page narrative which is part history, part scene-setting and part bird’s-eye-view of Washington’s life. “Mark Twain,” in contrast, presents readers with a lengthier, more dense, and much less lyrical literary journey.