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Noah Brooks
1830–1903
A journalist, editor, and storyteller with a front-row view of Abraham Lincoln’s era, he turned firsthand experience into lively history and fiction for general readers and young audiences alike.
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About the author
Born in Castine, Maine, in 1830, Noah Brooks built a varied career as an American journalist, editor, and author. He worked for newspapers in California and New York, and he became especially well known for his writing on Abraham Lincoln.
Brooks had known Lincoln before the presidency and later spent time in Washington as a newspaper correspondent, giving him unusual access to the White House during the Civil War years. That close contact shaped some of his best-known work, including books and recollections about Lincoln that helped introduce later readers to the president as both a public leader and a private person.
He also wrote broadly beyond political history, including fiction and books for younger readers. Brooks died in Pasadena, California, in 1903, but he remains of interest for the vivid, personal angle he brought to nineteenth-century American history.