Wayne Soini

Wayne Soini is a retired lawyer and lifelong Lincoln fan who helped Professor Charles B. Strozier to research his groundbreaking Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln: The Enduring Friendship of Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed (Columbia University Press, 2016), which was a Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. Soini is the author in his own right of several biographies including Porter’s Secret (Peter Randall Press, 2011), Norman Corwin: His Early Years and Radio Career 1910–1950 (McFarland, 2021), and Abraham Lincoln, American Prince: Ancestry, Ambition, and Anti-Slavery (McFarland, 2022).