James Thomas Flexner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

James Thomas Flexner

American biographer

Date of Birth: 13-Jan-1908

Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York, United States

Date of Death: 13-Feb-2003

Profession: historian, biographer, art historian

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

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.