James Thomas Flexner - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	13-January-1908
Place of Birth	New York City (New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
Nationality	United States of America
Profession	Author, Historian, Writer
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. His one-volume abridgment, Washington: the Indispensable Man was the basis of two television miniseries broadcast in the mid-1980s starring Barry Bostwick as Washington.

Awards by James Thomas Flexner

Check all the awards nominated and won by James Thomas Flexner.

1988

American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Biography

1973

Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards

Honored for : George Washington: the forge of experience, 1732-1775, George Washington in the American Revolution (1775-1783), George Washington, Vol. IV: Anguish and Farewell, 1793-1799, George Washington and the new nation, 1783-1793

(A special citation to George Washington, Vols. I-IV, by James Thomas Flexner)

National Book Award for Biography

Honored for : George Washington, Vol. IV: Anguish and Farewell, 1793-1799

Nominations 1973 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Biography	George Washington, Vol. IV: Anguish and Farewell, 1793-1799

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