William Martin Books

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

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

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

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

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

Our Harvard: Reflections 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)