craft of biography. 2015: National Humanities Medal 2016: Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site Advancing American Democracy (winner) 2017: Gold Medal Honoree from the National Institute of Social Sciences 2017: The Lincoln Forum's Richard Nelson Current Award of Achievement 2018: American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Biography 2019: Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement Published works Books Articles Filmography 1996: Biography, "J. Pierpont Morgan: Emperor of Wall Street" (documentary), as himself 2000: The American Experience, "The Rockefellers: Part 1" (documentary), as advisor 2000: The American Experience, "The Rockefellers: Part 2" (documentary), as advisor 2007: The American Experience, "Alexander Hamilton" (documentary), as advisor 2010: Tavis Smiley, "October 12, 2010 episode" (talk show), as guest 2010: Rediscovering Alexander Hamilton (documentary), as himself/historian 2020: Grant, as writer References Further reading "Ron Chernow" in Contemporary Authors Online (Gale, 2011) External links Ron Chernow at Penguin Group website The Founding Fathers Versus the Tea Party by Ron Chernow Ron Chernow remarks at the Washington Press Corps Dinner 2019 1949 births Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge American biographers 20th-century American historians 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Jewish American writers 20th-century American journalists American male journalists Historians from New York (state) Jewish American historians Journalists from New York City Living people American male biographers National Book Award winners Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners Writers from Brooklyn Yale University alumni National Humanities Medal recipients American male non-fiction writers 21st-century American Jews Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters