Title: Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Description: Winner of the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

The play shows in a series of scenes the critical years of Lincoln’s early manhood up to the moment of his election as president. We see the backwoodsman, a failure at shopkeeping, but a great favorite with friends and neighbors, slowly groping forward through the troubled years in Springfield, at last beginning to realize the great destiny before him.
Subjects: Drama
People: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)