Claim: Drew Gilpin Faust a finalist for the National Book Award is the author of six books and a biography of James Henry Hammond
Evidence: She is the author of six books, including Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (1996), for which she won both the Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize and the Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians in 1997. Her other works include James Henry Hammond and Old South, a biography of James Henry Hammond, Governor of South Carolina from 1842–1844. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award.