Stephen Harrigan is the author of nine previous books, including
The New York Times bestseller The Gates of the Alamo and Remember
Ben Clayton, which among other awards won the James Fenimore Cooper
Prize from the Society of American Historians for best historical
novel. He is also a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly and a
screenwriter who has written many movies for television. He lives
in Austin, Texas.
www.stephenharrigan.com
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Book of the Year
“An acute and original portrait of Lincoln … when our sixteenth
president was still a young backwoods lawyer. . . . A rumbling,
rambunctious novel, full of its own raw life.” —Jerome Charyn, The
Washington Post
“Emotionally rich and exquisitely poignant. . . . Harrigan
masterfully immerses readers in the story, the era, its
sensibilities and its characters.” —James Endrst, USA Today
“A novel of real rewards.” —Laird Hunt, The New York Times
Book Review
“Brings us closer than ever to the human Abraham
Lincoln—struggling, reflective, fundamentally noble and so much
more appealing than the pasteboard deity of popular myth.” —David
S. Reynolds, The Wall Street Journal
“Splendid . . . Quickly engages the reader's imagination with its
deep perspective, rich historical authenticity and a lively cast of
striving, imperfect humans.” —Dallas Morning News
“Delightful . . . A fictional friend named Cage Weatherby gives
readers an up-close glimpse of the rough-hewed country lawyer … who
longs to achieve something meaningful.” —The Christian Science
Monitor
“Meticulously researched, gorgeously rendered, A Friend of Mr.
Lincoln is a powerful historical novel of friendship, love and
ambition.” —The Huffington Post
“[An] imaginative—though largely faithful to the historical
record—account of the future president's early career.” —Chicago
Tribune
“Harrigan will fascinate readers with his bits of everyday
history.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“A fine work that anyone curious about Lincoln's rough and ready
days would enjoy reading.” —The Houston Chronicle
“Tremendous.” —The New York Journal of Books
“An astute look at the public and private sides of the young
Abraham Lincoln and the agonizing struggles he endured trying to
reconcile the two." —Booklist (starred review)
"In the genre of historical fiction, Stephen Harrigan is the gold
standard. . . . No historical novelist working today beats Harrigan
at capturing the nuances of a particular zeitgeist . . . and then
harnessing his research to a plot of invention so engaging that all
a reader can do is keep turning the pages, spellbound." —Hampton
Sides, author of In the Kingdom of Ice
“Richly drawn . . . Harrigan shows a young Lincoln in all his moods
and temperaments, providing context with vividly detailed
historical events." —Library Journal (starred review)
“Harrigan knows his Lincoln and knows how to write. Even when he
lets his imagination soar, it is always tethered to the
evidence. The result is historical fiction at its very best.”
—Joseph J. Ellis, author of The Quartet and Founding
Brothers
“Superb. . . . Harrigan’s standout novel shows the endurance
of friendship.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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