James Thomas Flexner, a prolific and graceful writer on subjects from American art to steamboats to medicine, who achieved his greatest fame for prize-winning biographies of George Washington, died on Thursday in his Manhattan apartment. He was 95. James Flexner, The NY Times, 1984 He wrote a four-volume biography of Washington, winning both the National Book Award and a special Pulitzer citation for the final volume, "Anguish and Farewell" (Little, Brown, 1972). He then wrote a one-volume abridgment, "Washington: the Indispensable Man" (Little, Brown, 1974). Two television mini-series adapted from these works were broadcast in the mid-1980's. Mr. Flexner wrote...