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Brad Ricca

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Born

CLEVELAND, The United States

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http://www.brad-ricca.com

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Nonfiction, Graphic Novels

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October 2016

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Brad Ricca is the award-winning author of Lincoln's Ghost (forthcoming 2025), the Eisner-nominated graphic novel Ten Days in a Mad-house with artist Courtney Sieh (2022), True Raiders (2021), Olive the Lionheart (2020), the Edgar-nominated Mrs. Sherlock Holmes (2017), and Super Boys (2014), winner of the Ohioana Book Award in Nonfiction and a Booklist Top 10 Book on the Arts. He is also the author of American Mastodon, winner of the 2009 St. Lawrence Book Award. His indie film Last Son (2010) won a Silver Ace Award. He is an English major with a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, where he lives with his family. ...more

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I was privileged to be asked to be on the Lincoln Log, the official podcast of the Abraham Lincoln Association. As the title says, the book is about Lincoln's ghost, not really Lincoln itself, but it is a spectre that is not just a Halloween trick, but a deep historical shadow of incredible power.

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	Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly, Brad Ricca (Goodreads Author), Common Classics Dyslexia-Friendly 3.86 avg rating — 24,132 ratings — published 1887 — 176 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mrs. Sherlock Holmes 3.29 avg rating — 6,903 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	True Raiders: The Untold Story of the 1909 Expedition to Find the Legendary Ark of the Covenant 3.20 avg rating — 930 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Olive the Lionheart: Lost Love, Imperial Spies, and One Woman's Journey to the Heart of Africa 3.25 avg rating — 914 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ten Days in a Mad-House by Brad Ricca (Goodreads Author) (Adapter), Courtney Sieh (Illustrator), Nellie Bly 3.75 avg rating — 769 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Super Boys: The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster—the Creators of Superman 3.85 avg rating — 327 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lincoln's Ghost: Houdini's War on Spiritualism and the Dark Conspiracy Against the American Presidency 3.24 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2025 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Artificial Man and Other Stories by Clare Winger Harris, Brad Ricca (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.56 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Mastodon really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“How easy it might have been for so lovely a creature as she to sit idly by,”
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“all the world was a neighborhood.”
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“Think for yourself...Be an inquirer--make no assertion unless you can support it by reason.”
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