Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Only a crazy man would write a novel in Lincoln's voice.
I know that by the time I was in middle school, Andre Norton was definitely my favorite author.
One decision I made in writing 'Henry and Clara' was that I would keep Lincoln's appearances and any dialogue by him to an absolute minimum, because I think readers don't quite believe it when novelists have Lincoln walking around and saying things. They just know they're in the presence of stage machinery.
Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America.
Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.
The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.
And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!
If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.
I read way, way more Andre Norton than could possibly have been healthy. It was a short hop from her to the rest of the library's science fictional and fantastic holdings.
I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.