The Man Who Lived Backward
by Malcolm Ross
Mark Selby, born in June of 1940, achieves a unique perspective on life and war and death
due to the fact that he lives each day from morning to night, aging in the usual way, but
the next morning he wakes up on the previous day until he eventually dies just after (or
is it before?) Lincoln’s assassination.
Tomorrow, my tomorrow, is the day of the President’s death.
The Man Who Lived Backward by Malcolm Ross (Farrar
Straus, 1950).