James Thomas Flexner Writer

James Thomas Flexner (January 13, 1908 – February 13, 2003) 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 (1974) was the basis of two television miniseries broadcast in the mid-1980s starring Barry Bostwick as Washington.

Personal facts

Birth dateJanuary 13, 1908
Birth place
Manhattan
Date of deathFebruary 13, 2003
Place of death
Manhattan

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Career start1937
Career end1996

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  1. http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/72573-1/James+Thomas+Flexner.aspx