WILLIAM MARTIN is the New York Times bestselling author of twelve novels. Across a career that spans four decades, in novels including Back Bay, City of Dreams, The Lost Constitution, and The Lincoln Letter, he has been telling the American story. He has brought to life the great and the anonymous in American history and swept readers from the deck of the Mayflower to 9/11. He has also written an award-winning PBS documentary on the life of George Washington as well as a cult-classic horror film. He is the recipient of the 2005 New England Book Award and the 2015 Samuel Eliot Morison Lifetime Achievement Award. He has three grown children and lives near Boston with his wife. You can sign up for email updates here.