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James Thomas Flexner

American biographer (1908-2003) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 95

James Thomas Flexner was an American historian and biographer best known for the four-volume biography of George Washington that earned him a National Book Award in Biography and a special Pulitzer Prize.

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2003Died13 February 20031980Guggenheim FellowshipAward1973National Book AwardAwardPulitzer Prize Special Citations and AwardsAward1963Francis Parkman PrizeAward1953Guggenheim FellowshipAward1908Born13 January 1908

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Awards

Guggenheim Fellowship1980
National Book Award1973
Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards1973
Francis Parkman Prize1963
Guggenheim Fellowship1953

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His one-volume abridgment, Washington: the Indispensable Man (1974) was the basis of two television miniseries, George Washington (1984) and George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation (1986), starring Barry Bostwick as Washington.

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Country
United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1908 to 2003 · aged 95