William Martin Books

Are you looking for an insightful, original speaker who will keep your audience on the edge of their seats? Then you'll love best-selling author William Martin. He jumps into his one-of-a-kind examples and ideas in the first minute and doesn't stop until his rousing finish. He's an ideal keynoter for sophisticated groups who have seen and heard it all." - Sam Horn, 17-time Emcee of the Maui-Hawaii Writers Conference and author of POP.

Before the NEBA Convention at the Rhode Island Civic Center in Providence, September, 2005.

William Martin has lectured on a wide range of topics:

The Changeless Town That's Always Changing: the Adventure of New York and the New Emission Money..

The Lost Constitution and Good Americans, a story of the U.S. Constitution, the struggle to ratify it, and the two-hundred year struggle to preserve it.

Where do You Get Your Ideas? William Martin tours some of the places where he's found inspiration and gives the audience few ideas on finding their own creativity, too.

From the One-Room Schoolhouse to the Twenty-Five- Billion Dollar Endowment: Harvard in American History

George Washington and Leadership: A Life in Five Acts

To the Shores of Tripoli: The US Navy in the Barbary Wars.

Boston's Back Bay: A City Grows Before Us A photographic tour of nineteenth-century Boston

Location, Location, Location A photographic tour of many of the places that have inspired William Martin's novels.

Some of the venues and events at which he has spoken over the years:

The New England Library Association Convention, (1980, 1991); the Boston Globe Book and Author Luncheons and Book Festivals (1984, 1987,1999, 2003); the Wellesley College Authors On Stage Series (1984, 1991); the Cleveland Plain Dealer Book and Author Series (1987, 1996); the Orlando Sentinel Book Fair, (1991); the Boston Atheneum Lectures on Catholicism in Boston (1989); the Massachusetts Historical Society(1993, 1999. 2007); the U.S.S. Constitution Museum Series, Authors at Sea, (1996); dinner speaker at the United States Naval Institute Conference at Annapolis (1997); the New-York Historical Society during the Washington exhibit(1999); the Philadelphia Atheneum (1999); the Mount Vernon Conference on George Washington at the Library of Congress, (1999); the New England Research Librarians Association Convention (1999); the Concord Author’s Festival (1995-98, 2003); the Friends of the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College Book and Author Series (2001); the Society of the Cincinnati of New Hampshire (2002); the Harvard Club of Boston (2004) and of Long Island (2005); the NEH leadership seminar at Boston University (2005, 2009)...

He has also taught writing at the Northeastern University London Writers Workshop (1984); the Maui Writers Retreat and Conference (2006-09); Suffolk University, Boston (2007); and the Harvard School of Continuing Education (2007).