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Ian W. Toll (born 1967) is an American author and military historian, who lives in New York City. He is perhaps most widely known for his three-volume history on the Pacific War.

Toll graduated from St George's School in Middletown, Rhode Island. He then studied and received a degree in history from Georgetown University in 1989. Toll studied and received a master's degree in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1995.

Early in his career, he was a political aide and speechwriter to U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes and New York Lieutenant Governor Stan Lundine. Subsequently, Toll was an analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and an equity research analyst at three investment banks, covering communications, software, and e-commerce stocks.