Ron Chernow is the prizewinning author of six previous books and the recipient of the 2015 National Humanities Medal.His first book, The House of Morgan, won the National Book Award, Washington: A Life won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and Alexander Hamilton—the inspiration for the Broadway musical—won the George Washington Book Prize.A past president of PEN America, … Author Ron Chernow is about to find out. Grant is a 2017 biography of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, written by American historian and biographer Ron Chernow.Grant, a Union general during the Civil War, served two terms as president, from 1869 to 1877.Chernow asserts that both Grant's command of the Overland campaign and his presidency have been seen in an undeservedly negative light. Professional background. Ron Chernow won the National Book Award in 1990 for his first book, The House of Morgan, and his second book, The Warburgs, won the Eccles Prize as the Best Business Book of 1993. Ron Chernow in his Brooklyn Heights home. He wrote more than 60 articles in national newspapers and magazines from 1973 to 1982. New York Times bestselling author Ron Chernow has gained recent attention for Alexander Hamilton, the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton.His more recent biography of a Founding Father, Washington: A Life, won a Pulitzer Prize for Biography.In addition to writing award-winning books, he’s a freelance journalist and has advised on TV documentaries. “Ron Chernow’s monumental biography of the 18th president is essential to understanding our race-conscious nation today.”—Bloomberg “Ron Chernow…has written an expansive new life of Grant. His biography of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., Titan, was a national bestseller and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. It is a work of striking anecdotes, skillful pacing, and poignant judgments.”—David W. Blight, The New York Review of Books Ron Chernow has received honorary degrees from Long Island University, Marymount Manhattan College, Hamilton College, Washington College, and Skidmore College. Chernow began his career as a freelance journalist.