Michael Wayne is a professor of history, emeritus at the University of Toronto. He is the prize winning author of three books of American history: Death of an Overseer, The Reshaping of Plantation Society, and Imagining Black America. In Lincoln’s Briefs, his first novel, he gives himself free rein to explore the satiric side of historical possibilities. He comes by his affinity for parody honestly, or perhaps genetically. His father is the late Johnny Wayne of the iconic comedy team Wayne and Shuster.