The Emancipator's Wife: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln - Hardcover

" From its perfect title to its beautiful poignant, last scene, this is a wonderful portrait of one of the most important, complex, and misunderstood figures in American history-- a brilliant novel of the Civil War." -- Max Byrd
" Touching...Hambly has a knack for bringing historical figures to life in all their flawed humanity." -- "Publishers Weekly"

"From its perfect title to its beautiful poignant, last scene, this is a wonderful portrait of one of the most important, complex, and misunderstood figures in American history--a brilliant novel of the Civil War."--Max Byrd

"Touching...Hambly has a knack for bringing historical figures to life in all their flawed humanity."--Publishers Weekly

Barbara Hambly attended the University of California and spent a year at the University of Bordeaux obtaining a master's degree in medieval history. She has worked as both a teacher and a technical editor, but her first love has always been history. Barbara Hambly is the author of A Free Man of Color, Fever Season, Graveyard Dust, Wet Grave, Sold Down the River, Die Upon a Kiss, Days of the Dead, and Dead Water. She is at work on a new historical novel, which Bantam will publish in 2006.