Which 1988 Newbery winner is a biography of Abraham Lincoln?

Which 1988 Newbery winner is a biography of Abraham Lincoln? The answer is *Lincoln: A Photobiography*.

Written by Russell Freedman, the book presents Abraham Lincoln’s life through narrative, photographs, maps, documents, and quotations from Lincoln himself. It covers his frontier childhood, political career, presidency during the Civil War, and assassination in 1865.

Published by Clarion Books in 1987, *Lincoln: A Photobiography* won the 1988 Newbery Medal. The committee praised Freedman’s research and his ability to present Lincoln as a complex historical person rather than only as a legendary folk hero.

The distractors can cause two kinds of confusion. *Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery* and *The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane* were also biographies by Freedman and later Newbery Honor books, but neither is the 1988 winner. *Claudette Colvin* is not the title of this Newbery-winning biography.