Ohioana Nonfiction Book Award: 2007
Douglas Brinkley for The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
William Morrow & Co
Douglas Brinkley is the author or co-author of more than fifteen books about history and historical figures, including Jimmy Carter,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Henry Ford, John Kerry, Ronald Reagan, and Rosa Parks.
He has received a number of book awards, prizes, and academic honors, among them the Benjamin Franklin Award and the Business Week
Book of the Year Award, as well as being named 2004 Humanist of the Year by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.
The Great Deluge won the 2007 Robert F. Kennedy award. Brinkley is a graduate of The Ohio State University. This July, after 14 years at Tulane University in New Orleans, Brinkley became professor of history and a fellow at the James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University in Houston, Texas
Brinkley is a former resident of Perrysburg, Ohio
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