She is best known for a widely read short story about US President Abraham Lincoln, "The Perfect Tribute", which was adapted for film twice and sold 600,000 copies when published as a standalone volume.
[1][2] For thirty years, the Andrewses spent summers at a wilderness camp about a hundred miles outside Quebec.
Andrews was asked to contribute the chapter about the boy Billy Talbert after Mark Twain declined.
[4] It depicts Lincoln writing and delivering the Gettysburg Address, then concluding his speech was an utter failure.
[8] The story was largely responsible for the persistent myth that Lincoln hurriedly wrote the Address on the train on the way to Gettysburg.