Dec 16, 2009

Abe Lincoln in Illinois | What Do I Read Next?

Critics consider The Petrified Forest to be Sherwood’s most successful play. It is about an intellectual war veteran facing a dangerous gangster in a diner out in the desert. It is available from the Dramatist’s Play Service.

Much of Sherwood’s information about Lincoln comes from the poet Carl Sandburg’s thorough biography, Lincoln: The Prairie Years, which is often bound with the other volume of his biography, The War Years.

Lincoln was very secretive about his family life. The source that most historians begin with for biographical...