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...were the only ones who got up for breakfast in Kirkland House,” Martin says of their long friendship...
While at Harvard, Martin concentrated in English and directed several student productions. After graduation, he headed to University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television to study moviemaking. While he waited for his big directorial break, he began to write B-movie horror flicks, including the little-remembered “Humanoids from the Deep.” His pet projects, though, were his historically-themed screenplays.“Everyone who’d look at them would tell me, ‘You ought to write a novel,’” Martin says...
...Martin began to write Back Bay, chronicling the fictional Peter Fallon’s quest to find a missing Paul Revere tea set stolen from the White House. Martin set up his now routine past-and-present structure, bringing the reader from 18th-century Boston to modern day chapter by chapter, chronicling six generations on their hunt for the missing silver. The book ends with an appropriately cinematic touch—Fallon blowing a hole into the side of a T subway tunnel to reveal a cache of hidden silver. “I thought, as I still...
Back Bay made the New York Times bestseller list—and made the 29-year-old Martin a rising star. Twenty-four years later, the book is still in print...
...Human nature never really changes," says Martin. "I try to write so the foreign seems familiar, and the familiar seems unique...