Honor Willsie Morrow was an Iowa native with a love of history. She spent ten years researching Abraham Lincoln and produced the "Great Captain" trilogy -- Forever Free (1927), With Malice Toward None (1928) and The Last Full Measure (1930). She wrote Western stories and for Collier's and Harper's Weekly, and was editor of a women's magazine called The Delineator from 1914 to 1919.