Louis Bayard is known for his works of speculative historical fiction. Courting Mr. Lincoln, his novel which was published in 2019 and about the courtship between Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln, is one of the author's most recent (and most...

Jackie and Me is a novel published by Louis Bayard in 2022. It is a fictionalized story based on the early life of Jacqueline Bouvier who would go to marry John F. Kennedy and become First Lady for the United States. Bayard carved out a niche for...

Published in 2007 to incredibly positive reviews from critics and audiences alike, author Louis Bayard's novel The Pale Blue Eye is set sometime in the 1830s at West Point Academy. On one cold and windy October day, a young cadet's body is found...