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The Lost Constitution (2007)

A national treasure disappears in 1787. Now Peter Fallon and Evangeline Carrington must find it. Their hunt takes them across the face of New England, through two centuries of American history, and ends at Fenway Park on the first night of the World Series.

"A gem of a series... Readers looking for another Da Vinci Code should find this a worthy successor." -- Booklist

 

 

Harvard Yard (2003)

A lost Shakespeare manuscript, the story of one of America's oldest institutions from 1638 to the present, and the return of the main characters from Back Bay - Peter Fallon and his girlfriend, Evangeline Carrington.

"William Martin once again explodes time and place into a compulsively readable fictional history."-- Santa Cruz Sentinel

 

Citizen Washington (1999)

A biographical novel about George Washington, told through the eyes of the people around him, from Mount Vernon slaves to Martha Washington to Adams and Jefferson.

 "A brilliant marriage of imagination and fact... that brings our first president and his contemporaries to such vivid life that they seem to have walked our streets only yesterday. This is a wonderfully entertaining and thoroughtly terrific book."-- Doris Kearns Goodwin

 

Annapolis (1996)

The story of an American family, an American town, and the United States Navy from the Revolution to Vietnam.

“Martin is the maritime Michener... A storyteller whose smoothness equals his ambition, he has written a panoramic entertainment that brings to vivid life the history of the American struggle to contol the high seas.” -- Publisher’s Weekly

 

Cape Cod (1991)

The story of one of the most legendary stretches of land in America, from the days of the Vikings to the present, all wrapped around the hunt for the lost log of the Mayflower. A New York Times Best Seller.

 "Teems with memorable characters. Suspense, conflict, authenticity..." -- Chicago Tribune

 

The Rising of the Moon (1987)

Boston politicians and Irish gunrunners in the weeks before the Easter Rebellion of 1916. A tale of politics and violence and the point at which they intersect.

"Martin is a master storyteller... This novel is a gem of an adventure, not to be missed." - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

 

Nerve Endings (1984)

A thriller about Hollywood, organ transplantation, cable television, and a chase from Los Angeles to Maine. A New York Times Best Seller.

“Sure to jump-start your batteries... Nerve Endings manages to be both fast-paced and insightful.” - San Francisco Chronicle

 

Back Bay (1980)

A lost Paul Revere tea set. A mudflat that will become the most beautiful part of Boston. A young Harvard graduate student searching the past for clues that come to life before us. One of a handful of first novels to make the New York Times Best Seller.

“Back Bay introduces a new and richly gifted storyteller... History, mystery, romance and gallons of other goings-on mingle in this irresistible chronicle which will keep you feverishly turning pages long after you should have been asleep. A stimulating debut of an original talent.” -- Cleveland Plain Dealer

Essays and Articles:

Our Harvard: Reflectins on College Life by Twenty-Two Distinguished Graduates, Jeffrey L. Lant, ed., (Taplinger, 1982).

Miscellany, publication of the Mass. Historical Society (#48, Autumn, 1991).

 A Place Apart, a Cape Cod Reader, Robert Finch, ed., (W.W. Norton, 1993). The opening chapter of CAPE COD is excerpted.

Wendell Minor: Art for the Written Word, Wendell Minor and Florence Freidman Minor, eds., introduction by David McCullough, (Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1995). Fifty-eight authors comment on the covers Minor has created for their books.

The Writer Magazine, “On Writing Historical Fiction,” (Vol. 109, #7, July, 1996) Also reprinted in The Writer's Handbook, 1997 Edition, Sylvia K. Burack, ed., (The Writer, Inc., 1997).

Out of the Fog,  a serial novel published in the Barnstable Patriot, 2003. Fourteen writers with connections to Cape Cod wrote chapters in this suspense thriller set in a small Cape town.

The Cape Cod Almanac, 2006, "Many Starts But Never an Ending," an essay on summer.

Book Reviews, appearing periodically in the Boston Globe.

Boston Magazine, "The Race to Save the Rare Books," the story of book conservator Stuart Walker and the incredible collection of rare books at the Boston Public Libary. (March 2008)