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3 unusual facts about Francis Parkman Prize


Francis Parkman Prize

1992 – Richard White for The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815

1998 – John M. Barry for Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America

2012 – Richard White for Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America


Blake Bailey

In 2005, Bailey was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to work on his biography, Cheever: A Life, which won the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award, the Francis Parkman Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.


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