Michael Wayne

Michael Wayne

Michael Wayne is a professor of history, emeritus at the University of Toronto. He is the prize winning author of three books of American history: Death of an Overseer, The Reshaping of Plantation Society, and Imagining Black America. In Lincoln’s Briefs, his first novel, he gives himself free rein to explore the satiric side of historical possibilities. He comes by his affinity for parody honestly, or perhaps genetically. His father is the late Johnny Wayne of the iconic comedy team Wayne and Shuster.

Book(s)

Books

Lincoln's Briefs

Lincoln's Briefs

Yale Templeton, an undistinguished professor of History at a university in Toronto, has made a shocking discovery: Abraham Lincoln was not, in fact, assassinated, but faked his own death so that he could assume a new identity and move to Canada. And the reason for Lincoln's ruse?