Oates, Stephen B.: - Stephen B. Oates is the author of sixteen books, including well-regarded biographies of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr., which won the Christopher Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award. His books have been translated into several languages.Oates was also a consultant and talking head in Ken Burns's Civil War series on PBS, and a recipient of the Nevins-Freeman Award of the Chicago Civil War Round Table for lifetime achievement in the field of Civil War studies. He was an emeritus professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.