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The Shores of Bohemia not only explores the unreliable boundaries between the local and the global, it marks, as well, the various intersections of historical event, human mysteries, and pure magic. -- Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author A gossipy and utterly fascinating account...You're almost overwhelmed with famous names...[who] spent their times arguing, debating, and politicking...Somehow being outside the usual world helped these creative men and women reimagine it. -- New York Times Book Review An intimate view of creative lives in turbulent times. -- Kirkus Reviews Surely no place has had so many brilliant American painters, playwrights, novelists, architects, and intellectuals as the three towns at the end of Cape Cod did from 1910 to 1960. Ike Williams has found them all and given us an astonishing portrait of their lives together. -- Frances FitzGerald, Pulitzer Prize-winning author The spirit of that vanished era breathes again in Williams's meandering, affectionate tribute. -- Boston Globe Williams gives an expansive and alluring account of the Cape's heyday. You'll wish you could have been there. -- The Atlantic

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"John Taylor ""Ike"" Williams is a founder of the literary agency Kneerim & Williams and a lawyer specializing in intellectual property and First Amendment litigation. He is the coauthor of the widely used textbook Perle, Williams & Fischer on Publishing Law. Williams has served as chair of the National Endowment for the Arts awards panel and as a trustee of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, among other positions. He lives in Cambridge and Wellfleet, Massachusetts."

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