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Benjamin Chapin, an impersonator of this man, wrote a play titled for him that was then adapted into a ten-film cycle. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this man whose final day in Ford’s Theater watching Our American Cousin is depicted in Chapin’s play.
ANSWER: Abraham Lincoln
[10h] This playwright wrote about Lincoln’s life before going to Washington, D.C. in his play Abe Lincoln in Illinois. This member of the Algonquin Round Table also wrote The Petrified Forest.
ANSWER: Robert E. Sherwood [or Robert Emmet Sherwood]
[10m] Sherwood’s play was largely based on this author’s biography of Lincoln. This author also wrote, “Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo” in his poem “Grass.”
ANSWER: Carl Sandburg [or Carl August Sandburg]
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