Nancy Hanks Lincoln

A Frontier Portrait (1952)

A Biography by Harold E. Briggs and Ernestine Bennett Briggs

Nancy Hanks Lincoln, A Frontier Portrait is the definitive biography about the life and times of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, the mother of beloved former President Abraham Lincoln. First published in 1952 and written by notable historians Harold B. Briggs and Ernestine Bennett Briggs, it is based on over ten years of diligent research into the background of Nancy Hanks Lincoln and her extended family. The writers of this biography focused on separating often-repeated lies from fact, which has been featured endlessly in many well-known biographies about her famous son. In addition to their own research they relied heavily on the credible research from respected Lincoln historian Louis A. Warren.