![]() ![]() Thus, Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln proceeded with the state dinner they had planned. The doctor believed that Willie was merely sick with a cold and would soon recover. Through the use of real and invented historical sources, the novel relates the story of Willie’s death. Willie Lincoln materializes in the bardo and is greeted by Hans Vollman-a deceased printer who was killed at the age of 46 by a falling support beam-and Roger Bevins III-a young man who took his life after being rebuffed by a young man named Gilbert with whom Bevins was in love. The novel opens in the bardo, which is an intermediary state between life and the afterlife. ![]() In 1862, Willie Lincoln died of typhoid fever at the age of 11. Lincoln in the Bardo is a novel based on the true story of the death of William Wallace “Willie” Lincoln, a son of United States President Abraham Lincoln. ![]() The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Saunders, George. ![]()
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