Legacy
Walter Hines Page was also the brother of Robert N. Page, a U.S. Representative from North Carolina, and Henry A. Page, a North Carolina representative and a founder of the North Carolina Highway System.
The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, by Burton J. Hendrick, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1923, and The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, by Burton J. Hendrick, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1929.
There is a Walter Hines Page Senior High School in Greensboro, North Carolina, and a Walter Hines Page Research Professor of Literature (currently Ariel Dorfman) at Duke University.
Today, scholarships are awarded by the English-Speaking Union (ESU), in Walter Hines Pages' name to teachers from the United Kingdom to study in the United States and Canada.
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