Ronald Gruner

Ronald Gruner founded and served as the chief executive of three successful technology firms over his forty-year career. As a business executive, Gruner wrote extensively on the industry and technology. Since retiring, Gruner has published two histories, We the Presidents and Covid Wars, in addition to an anthology, Short Essays for Inquiring Minds.

We The Presidents is a non-partisan presidential history which explores how the policies of American presidents over the last century from Warren G. Harding to Donald J. Trump have affected America, and the world, today. We the Presidents was awarded the gold medal for General Nonfiction by the Florida Book Awards in 2023.

The author took a similar approach with his second book, COVID WARS. Rather than ideology, Gruner objectively discusses how America’s divided public health policies affected COVID death rates, personal freedoms, and the national economy.

Short Essays for Inquiring Minds, published in 2026, is composed of over fifty essays, ranging across science, history, politics, economics, and popular culture written in a style that one reviewer described as having “a touch of Ken Burns and more than a touch of sardonic wit.”

On July 4, 2026, Gruner published a special edition of We the Presidents in commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of American Independence. The new addition includes extensive updates to reflect the Biden presidency and the first year of Donald Trump's second term.

Gruner lives with his wife, Nancy, in Naples, Florida where he is a consistently poor golfer.