<prompt> Translate the following text to EnglishKatika kesi ya kwanza, mwandishi wa wasifu wa Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Oates, alidai kuwa na kitabu cha maisha ya Lincoln cha mwaka 1952 kilichoandikwa na Benjamin Thomas.  <response>: In a celebrated case, Abraham Lincoln biographer Stephen Oates was said to have ripped off a widely read 1952 Lincoln biography by Benjamin Thomas. 