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- ↑ "The 1980 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Biography". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
- ↑ "President Bush Announces 2006 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal Recipients". georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov.
