• Ronald C. White, Jr. is the author of A. Lincoln: A Biography (2009), a New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times bestseller. The book was honored as a best book of 2009 by the Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, History Book Club, and Barnes & Noble. His Lincoln biography won the coveted Christopher Award in 2010 which salutes books “that affirm the highest values of the human spirit.”

    White is also the author of Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural (2002), honored as a New York Times Notable Book of 2002, and a Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle bestseller, and The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words (2005), a Los Angeles Times bestseller, a selection of the History Book Club and the Book-of-the-Month Club.

    He is presently writing a comprehensive biography of Ulysses S. Grant which will be published by Random House.

    He has lectured at the White House and been interviewed on the PBS News Hour. Dr. White is a graduate of UCLA, Princeton Theological Seminary, with a Ph.D. in Religion and History from Princeton University. He has taught at UCLA, Princeton Theological Seminary, Whitworth University, Colorado College, and San Francisco Theological Seminary. He is a Fellow at the Huntington Library and Visiting Professor of History at UCLA. He lives with his wife, Cynthia, in La Cañada, California.

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Photos from recent speaking events

Rev. Msgr. Peter G. Finn presents Christopher Award for A. Lincoln The Rev. Msgr. Peter G. Finn presents a Christopher Award for A. Lincoln, one of four awards for Book for Adults published in 2009. The award was received on April 15 in New York City.


ChristopherAwardAuthors Some of the Christopher Award winners in books for children and adults, New York, April 15.


Lincoln Group of New York White Koppelman The Lincoln Group of NY, presentation by Steven R. Koppelman of 2009 Award for "Best Lincoln Book of 2009," New York, March 3, 2010.  Photo credit Henry F. Ballone.

Ron White at Perkins School of Theology Delivering Lincoln Day Lecture at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, February 12, 2010.


Ron White with Laura Bush Greetings from First Lady Laura Bush, a Trustee of Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, February 12, 2010.

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