![]() ![]() ![]() In Italy he explored the museums and galleries of Florence with the famous art historian Bernard Berenson, the husband of his mother’s first cousin and a significant influence on his later work in art history. In his senior year he took a leave of absence from the Lincoln School to tour Egypt and western Europe. Small in size and hampered by a form of dyslexia, Flexner was at first a self-admitted pariah at the school but eventually shone as a poet and editor of a literary magazine. ![]() Flexner gained an appreciation for self-made men from his father, with whom he eventually coauthored a book on the history of medicine in America, while he derived his love of literature and art from his mother.įlexner attended the Lincoln School, a laboratory school founded in 1917 for experimentation with progressive education methods associated with Teachers College, Columbia University. James Carey Thomas Flexner was the son of Simon Flex-ner, a pathologist, bacteriologist, and first full director of the Rockefeller Institute and Helen (Thomas) Flexner, a member of the English department at Bryn Mawr College and an aspiring writer. ![]() 13 February 2003 in New York City), writer, art historian, and award-winning biographer of George Washington. ![]()
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