William Wallace 'Willie' Lincoln (December 21, 1850 – May 16, 1937) was the third son of President Abraham Lincoln and a famous American novelist, known for his popular novels Gone Second, Eastern Skies, and The Quake, as well as the grade-school/teenage novel series American Survival, the latter of which he wrote thirty-seven novels for. Some regard his third major novel, The Quake, written in 1887 and with its setting in South California after a major earthquake in Los Angeles as almost prophetic to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. His final novels were Indian Territory and A Dark Nightmare, of which Indian Territory was adapted into a film in 1933 (starring Walter Brennan and Willie's youngest son Michael), the writing supervised by the aging Willie, by then nearly eighty-three. He di