In this passage from Rosemary Wells’s Lincoln and His Boys, Lincoln and Willie and Robert and Tad (the three Lincoln boys) and Mrs. Lincoln are traveling from Springfield, Illinois, to Washington.
Author Rosemary Wells doesn’t believe in a specific writing “process.” The books just seem to arrive. “I am just a scribe,” she says. That’s how it was for her book On the Blue Comet.
Author Rosemary Wells studies archival photographs very carefully, absorbing all the details, and tries to imagine the people in the photographs coming to life.
