Tony Wolk

Lincoln’s Daughter completes Tony Wolk’s Lincoln Out of Time trilogy about inexplicable, time-traveling Abraham Lincoln, and the widow who gives birth to his daughter. A Lincoln scholar himself, Wolk blends historical facts and people with fictional characters, skillfully bringing time, place, and president to life—once again proving his dedication to both history and literature.

It’s 1964, and Abraham Lincoln’s daughter, Sarah, daydreams about meeting her father. Her mother, Joan, met Lincoln nine years earlier when he was transported to Evanston, Illinois, from his own time and place for a day. When Sarah’s stepfather, Will, a Lincoln scholar, doesn’t return home from an overnight trip, Sarah and her mother have no way of knowing that he has traveled back in time to 1833 in the same mysterious way Lincoln came forward. The two grow more and more nervous waiting for him to come home. A stranger’s phone call and the discovery of an abandoned truck will push daughter, mother, and their old dog, Rusty, away from home in search of Will.

During this journey, Sarah leaves 1964 behind and finds not only Will, but her father, Abraham Lincoln.

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ISBN: 978-1-932010-25-1
5½˝ x 8½˝, paperback
192 pages
12 line drawings
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About the Author

Tony Wolk

Tony Wolk is a scholar with an avid interest in Abraham Lincoln, whom he calls, “the essence of a good man.” Tony draws upon fourteen years of research to give a historically accurate feel to his highly imaginative trilogy, Lincoln Out of Time.

Tony Wolk graduated from Northwestern University with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism in 1957 and with a master’s in English Literature two years later. After a brief time teaching English at a college of mortuary science, where he says he “loved it, loved the cadavers and formaldehyde, and the living students,” Tony moved to the University of Nebraska, where he completed his PhD in English. In 1965 he moved to Portland, Oregon, and began teaching at Portland State University. Tony continues to teach at PSU, specializing in Renaissance literature, science fiction, and composition.

Wolk published his first article in 1969 and has written steadily ever since. Abraham Lincoln, A Novel Life and Good Friday are the first two books in the Lincoln Out of Time trilogy.

An avid cyclist, Wolk has been riding the same bicycle around Portland since 1969. Having ridden over 55,000 miles, he has had many interesting moments along the way—including talking a girl out of jumping from the Broadway Bridge. His love of cycling is tied to his feeling of being connected to the area, and he brings this sense of connection to his stories, articles, and novels.

Praise

Lincoln’s Daughter is the final, and in my view the best, book in Tony Wolk’s trilogy about Abraham Lincoln. It brings the reader full-circle in the wonderful story of the magical day Lincoln found himself ninety years in the future and the result of that short stay: a daughter. Wolk places his fictionalized Lincoln in the historic context of Lincoln’s life in the 1830s. He gives his Lincoln a poise and language that we all hope the real Lincoln possessed. This is a story not just about Lincoln and his love for that one day he had in the future, but about the depth of the soul of the man, and his enduring capacity for love that he and his daughter have for one another even across the ages.
— Mike Burton, Chair, Oregon Lincoln Bicentennial Commission

It is always a pleasure to return to the time-traveling Studebakers. Lincoln’s Daughter is a remarkably generous book, equal parts sweetness and wisdom. The characters, both historical and fictional, are drawn with care and love; the observations about history, family, and connection are profound and thought-provoking . I seldom read a book that makes me as thoroughly happy as this did.
— Karen Joy Fowler

Tony Wolk has a definite gift in bringing to life the thoughts and mannerisms of a young Abraham Lincoln in this latest installment of his ‘Lincoln’ series. The chapters delineating the growing friendship between the young Abraham Lincoln and time traveller Bill Studebaker on the road to Springfield in January of 1833 offer an endearing insight into the analytical mind of the budding politician. Wolk is a masterful storyteller.
— KC Piccard-Krone, President, Friends of History, Portland State University