Jonathan Putnam

Jonathan F. Putnam is a writer and attorney. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, he is a nationally renowned trial lawyer and a recognized Lincoln scholar. The books in his Lincoln & Speed Mystery series include A House Divided (July 2019); Final Resting Place (2018); Perish from the Earth (2017); and These Honored Dead (2016).

Jonathan has given lectures about Lincoln to historical societies, libraries, schools, civic organizations, and lawyer groups around the country. The focus of his Lincoln scholarship is the great president's early professional years, including his defining, lifelong friendship with a well-born Southerner named Joshua Speed.

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