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Lin-Manuel Miranda, the playwright, lyricist, composer and star of the hit musical Hamilton has won a Special Achievement Award from the board of the George Washington Book Prize. The special award of $50,000 will be presented on December 14 in New York.
This marks the first time a George Washington Prize has been presented to a play. A spokesperson said: "In capturing the hearts of all who have seen it, Hamilton has clearly made the lessons of our Founding accessible and engaging while hewing to historical fact."
In a nice twist, Miranda has said that his inspiration for the play, which tells the story of the nation's first treasurer using rap, hip hop and diverse casting, was Ron Chernow's biography Alexander Hamilton--the winner, in 2005, of the first George Washington Book Prize.