American biographer — author of Titan, Alexander Hamilton, Washington, and Grant — Pulitzer Prize winner (2011 — Washington: A Life) — the most commercially successful serious American biographer.
Creates the definitive American mega-biography — Chernow's combination of exhaustive archival research with popular narrative has produced the definitive biographies of Hamilton, Rockefeller, Washington, and Grant; Alexander Hamilton directly inspired the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical, making Chernow's work uniquely productive of cultural offspring.
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