John A. McKinsey

John McKinsey is the author of The Lincoln Secret, a new novel featuring a modern day search to unravel mysteries left behind by Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. The Lincoln Secret is his first full length novel, but he has been writing fiction, and non-fiction since he was a child, and he is the co-author of an undergraduate textbook, Understanding the Law, that teaches college students the basic legal workings of life in the United States.

The Lincoln Secret explores several real historical mysteries about Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War through the efforts of several modern day characters who work to unravel them while an unknown sinister force interferes with their efforts. A core historical mystery in the novel surrounds Abraham Lincoln's parentage. An alternate history has long taught that Abraham Lincoln was actually the illegitimate child of Abraham Enloe, a farmer in western North Carolina at the foot of the Great Smokey Mountains. John McKinsey extensively researched and explored this mystery and others before crafting this modern day mystery novel.

John McKinsey is a graduate of California State University, Sacramento and the School of Law at University of California, Davis. He lives in Northern California with his wife and has done extensive travel and research to gather information for this piece of historical fiction. When not writing, he practices energy and wine law and spends time on the family farm. He is currently researching for his second novel to be released in 2011!