• The George Washington Book Prize was instituted in 2005 and is awarded annually to the best book on the founding era of the United States; especially ones...
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  • of the Treasury. The book, which was met with mostly positive acclaim, went on to win the inaugural George Washington Book Prize for early American history...
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  • which he won the inaugural $50,000 George Washington Book Prize. Chernow conceived the idea of a book on Washington while researching Hamilton's life;...
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    He is a two-time winner of the Merle Curti Award and won the George Washington Book Prize in 2008. Rediker received fellowships from the National Endowment...
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    The Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a prestigious literary award conferred each...
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  • Washington's Crossing is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book written by David Hackett Fischer and part of the "Pivotal Moments in American History" series. It...
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    The International Booker Prize (formerly known as the Man Booker International Prize) is an international literary award hosted in the United Kingdom....
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  • Foundation Distinguished Book Award, the Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. prize, and other awards. He is the author of General George Washington: A Military Life, which...
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  • following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original...
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  • the $61,000 Sophie Kerr Prize. In 2005, Washington College inaugurated another literary prize, the George Washington Book Prize, administered by the college's...
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  • for the Booker Prize, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. George Washington "Wash" Black...
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  • 2009 George Washington Book Prize finalist 2009 Fellow, Society of American Historians[citation needed] 2016 Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American...
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    Ron Chernow (category Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners)
    Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the 2011 American History Book Prize for his 2010 book Washington: A Life. He is also the recipient of the National Book Award...
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    Stacy Schiff (category Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners)
    2000 Pulitzer Prize, Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) 2006 George Washington Book Prize, A Great Improvisation 2015 Lapham's Quarterly Janus Prize 2017 New England...
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    National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction and 2012 George Washington Book Prize for Liberty's Exiles. She won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013...
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    Rick Atkinson (category Pulitzer Prize for History winners)
    2019. "The George Washington Book Prize 2020". George Washington's Mount Vernon. "New-York Historical Society Barbara and David Zalaznick Prize in American...
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    Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice is a 2022 biography about murder victim George Floyd written by Washington Post...
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    Retrieved January 28, 2017. "Lin-Manuel Miranda to Receive George Washington Book Prize Special Achievement Award". The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American...
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    (Published 2015)" – via NYTimes.com. "History Prize Winners". "The George Washington Book Prize". George Washington's Mount Vernon. Holman, Curt. "Cherokee Nation...
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  • actress David Head (born 1984), American author and winner of the George Washington Book Prize Don Head (ice hockey) (born 1933), Canadian ice hockey player...
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    the Society of American Historians. She won the 2011 George Washington Book Prize for her book Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787–1788...
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  • awarding the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, Frederick Douglass Book Prize, George Washington Prize, and the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History; offering...
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    Alan Taylor (historian) (category Bancroft Prize winners)
    1772-1832 2014 George Washington Book Prize finalist for The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia: 1772-1832 2017 George Washington Book Prize finalist...
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  • which won a Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History and was shortlisted for the George Washington Book Prize. Born in Prestatyn, Wales...
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    2013 Story Prize for short-story collections and the inaugural (2014) Folio Prize. His novel Lincoln in the Bardo won the 2017 Booker Prize. Saunders was...
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    Marriage (New York: William Morrow, 2009) – finalist for the 2010 George Washington Book Prize. ——. "Bonds of Friendship: The Correspondence of Abigail Adams...
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    The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor is an American award presented by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. annually...
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    American History Book Prize, the George Washington Book Prize, and the Daughters of the American Revolution Excellence in American History Book Award. It has...
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  • audience. As such, they were considered a more populist literary prize than the Booker Prize, which also limited winners to literature written in the English...
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    The presidency of George Washington began on April 30, 1789, when Washington was inaugurated as the first president of the United States, and ended on...
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