William Williamson

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  • Bibliography:
    38 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 2002
  • Latest Book:
    August 2018
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Full Series List in Order

Some Came First

1 - Scorpions, A Key West Tale (Feb-2013)
2 - Dead Quivers, A Key West Summer (Feb-2013)
3 - Don't Ask The Mockingbird, What He Can't Tell (Mar-2013)
4 - Big Tea Table Bridge (Feb-2013)

Book List in Order: 38 titles

  • Tonight We're Serving Insanity For Supper

  • A Mere Miscellany of Midnight Madrigals

    A MERE MISCELLANY Of MIDNIGHT MADRIGALS
    by WILLIAM WILLIAMSON

    Is a new book of poems by the author of SOME CAME FIRST, SOME CAME AFTER and SOME CAME NAKED, William's three novels comprising his Florida Keys trilogy.

    Williamson's po...

  • Some Came First

    SOME CAME FIRST is a gritty, coming-of-age novel set in the Florida Keys spanning the tumultuous sixties, the debauchery defining seventies decade as illicit smuggling and bacchanalian revelry renames the islands, Margaritaville, to the sobering earl...

  • 69 Poems on a Sundog Day

    69 POEMS ON A SUNDOG DAY Is a new book of poems by the author of SOME CAME FIRST, SOME CAME AFTER and SOME CAME NAKED, William Williamson’s three novels comprising his Florida Keys trilogy. These poems, written during a two-week span while staying ...

  • Millennium Maladies

    Millennium Maladies
    By William Williamson
    Is a new book of prose poems by the author of SOME CAME FIRST, SOME CAME AFTER and SOME CAME NAKED, William's three novels comprising his Florida Keys trilogy.

    Williamson's prose is always clea...

  • Accept No Presents and Give No Pardons, a Poet Is on His Own

    ACCEPT NO PRESENTS AND GIVE NO PARDONS, A POET IS ON HIS OWN,
    by William Williamson, is a conceptual body of work, written in third person, celebrating and questioning the hard dualities we all find, at times, in our life and in our relationships...

  • Bar Snatch

    BAR SNATCH ….William Williamson Forty eight poems comprising snippets of conversation, observations, thoughts, the life you find in bars, saloons, cafés, cocktail lounges where people go and expose themselves to each other over beer, wine and liqu...

  • A Killing Frost Falls Down Tonight

    A KILLING FROST FALLS DOWN TONIGHT by William Williamson
    Is a new book of prose by the author of SOME CAME FIRST, SOME CAME AFTER and SOME CAME NAKED, William's three novels comprising his Florida Keys trilogy.

    In A KILLING FROST FALLS D...

  • Big Tea Table Bridge

    Some Came First - 4

    To the uninitiated, Big Tea Table Bridge is just one of the many bridges visitors cross over as they drive down the necklace of islands that make up the Florida Keys. But Big Tea Table Bridge has a storied, unspoken history in its past. To the left, ...



  • Dead Quivers, A Key West Summer

    Some Came First - 2

    It’s the hot and humid summer of 1977 in the Florida Keys. The “Son of Sam” killer is terrorizing New York City residents, stalking them with a .44 magnum handgun, Jimmy Buffett’s song, Wasted away in Margaritaville is getting radio play and ...

  • Scorpions, A Key West Tale

    Some Came First - 1

    Two months shy of his sixteenth birthday, native born Florida Keys Conch, Henry Roberts is dropped off by his father, Jake, to stay at his Great Aunt Lela’s house in Key West for the summer while Jake disappears to go shrimping. Hard lessons are in...

  • A Better Time, A Better Place

    Holton Roberts, his wife, Dot and their son, Jake have been living since the forties on Pigeon Plum Key, a small private island a tenth of a mile offshore from the chain of islands that make up the Florida Keys. Their idyllic Conch life, fishing, tur...

  • Don't Ask The Mockingbird, What He Can't Tell

    Some Came First - 3

    A week shy of his sixteenth birthday, Henry Roberts is realizing the summer of 1977 has changed him and his family forever. As he steps off a Greyhound bus after staying two months in Key West with his great Aunt Lela and her grandson, he sees his ho...

  • First & Last Impressions from the Lost & Found

    First & Last Impressions from the Lost & Found, William Williamson's eighth book of published prose is as shaved and naked as his first seven books. Poetic prose that can just as easily cut to the quick of a fingernail, to a magic moment of tendernes...

  • Any Given Morning, We Cry In The Mirror

    Any Given Morning, We Cry In The Mirror is a coming of age story set in the Florida Keys on a small island called Matecumbe. Henry Roberts wakes up in his bedroom the day after his sixteenth birthday realizing everything he has ever known in his life...

  • Bathtub Beach

    For the native children growing up in the sixties on Matecumbe, a small island in the Florida Keys, there was no Disney World or Sea World their parents could take them to for the day. There was Bathtub Beach. A tiny lagoon that was the gathering spo...

  • Some Kind of Heroes

    On one of the postage stamp size islands in the Florida Keys, forming a hundred and twenty-mile crescent chain, separating the Atlantic Ocean from the Florida Bay, is a small tropical island about four miles long and barely a half of a mile wide. The...

  • A Pound of Bacon and A Fifth of Bourbon, A Key West Promise

    “Aunt Lela died last night,” Jake solemnly announces in his slow, charming southern accent. So begins, A Pound of Bacon and A Fifth of Bourbon, A Key West Promise.1982. The Southernmost city is still living the consequences of the Mariel Boatlift...

  • A Day In a Life in Key West

    In 1982, Key West, the southernmost city in the continental United States was feeling the winds of change. The Mariel Boatlift from the year before when thousands of Cubans sailed into port after Fidel Castro allowed them to leave Cuba was still impa...



  • TAKE ME TO THE RIVER

    Henry Roberts, a native Conch from the Florida Keys drives to Northeast Florida for his first visit to the Macclenny Mental Institution where his older, twenty-one year old brother, Randy, has been a patient for the last four and half years. Henry...

  • Some Came After, Key West Calling

    SOME CAME AFTER is a compelling tour de force sequel to William Williamson's first Florida Keys novel, SOME CAME FIRST, picking up thirteen years later at a small mom and pop restaurant in Key Largo. A young man has a chance meeting with a woman who ...

  • Last Call, Selected Bar Prose

    St. Augustine, William's adapted hometown, is not as well known for its revelry or debauchery like Key West or New Orleans but since its founding 450 years ago, there have always been taverns where hungry and thirsty souls came for food, spirits, com...

  • Key West by Three in the Afternoon

    Henry Roberts, Florida Keys native and now, local Matecumbe author, has been living an idyllic life for the past three years. He’s been reunited with Finee, a Cuban woman he has loved and coveted since childhood and he has found minor success and p...

  • A Road To Travel, Key West Bound

    A visit to Key West means many different things to different people. A vacation in a tropical setting. A romantic getaway for couples. A place to shed your inhibitions and party into the morning hours. Out on the water fishing, snorkeling or diving. ...

  • Key West Consequences

    As Henry Roberts, local Matecumbe author wrestling with his second Florida Keys novel knows, fish and company both can smell in three days. Henry’s usual Thursday night writing routine has been disrupted by his step-brother Corky who has hitchhiked...

  • Corrida Faux Pas, Key West Can't Bury Their Dead

    For Corky, somewhere at the end of the Overseas Highway in Key West, he’s hoping his older brother, Henry, a local Matecumbe author will introduce him to a man he’s never met, their father Jake, so he can connect the truth with the past he never ...

  • Water Down

    When local Matecumbe author, Henry Roberts, wakes up he feels two sensations. A hangover and soreness on the side of his face courtesy of his younger brother, Corky, who hitchhiked from North Florida barging into Henry's life unexpe...

  • After Hours, Selected Bar Prose Vol. II

    With After Hours, Selected Bar Prose Vol. II, St. Augustine's resident prose poet, William Williamson is back with volume two following the first book, Last Call, Selected Bar Prose. The focus is still in St. Augustine, William's adapted hometown, a ...

  • Key West, Last Link in the Chain

    Key West. The last link in the chain that forms a necklace of islands called the Florida Keys. A town proclaimed the richest city per capita in America one decade to being one of the poorest cities a generation later and declaring bankruptcy. The isl...



  • When Old Is Never New In Key West

    When Old Is Never New In Key West is a tragic but endearing story of Josey Roberts. An old man in his twilight years who lived his whole life in Key West but never once found paradise on the island. Born in 1929, at the earliest age, Josey could reme...

  • Finding Father in Key West

    Meeting your father for the first time, naked, in a bathhouse on the beach might sound crazy if it wasn’t a beach in Key West. A town well known for its tolerance of risqué behavior, day or night from residents and visitors alike.The day before, H...

  • Key West Dreams In The Lost & Found

    Key West has always been a place for dreamers, lovers and the young at heart. The island welcomes you, to come as you are but its charms can also change you in many ways with its tropical decadence. There is a seductive nature about a place where mos...

  • Strange Key West Days Have Found Us

    Jake Roberts started shrimping out of Key West with Bull Brothers in the Sixties when Bull bought his first shrimp trawler. Henry, Corky and Cat finally tracked them down wasting time at Higgs Beach. They agreed to get together for dinner and drinks ...

  • Turtle Kraals Redux, Buffet in Key West

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    As Jake, Bull, Corky, Cat and Henry, get quiet and go about eating dinner, Henry reflects on how events and people alter not only a person’s life but a town, too. Life is about choices and changes he decides looking around Turtle Kraals. Tons of mo...

  • In Key West, The Doors Are Wide Open At Sloppy Joe's

    Henry swore after driving Corky and Cat to Key West to introduce Corky to his father, Jake as the bastard son he never knew about, he’s returning to his girlfriend, Finee, in Matecumbe and back to struggling with his second novel. Two hours after d...

  • Redundant Ruminations of a Hand Well Stroked

    In Redundant Ruminations of a Hand Well Stroked, the latest book of prose by St. Augustine’s resident poet and Florida Keys novelist, William Williamson brings to the page, ruminations on writing as well as timeless observations and recollections f...

  • Chasing The Bull in Key West

    It’s easy to shed inhibitions in Key West where everybody seems to be on some kind of vacation. Locals and visitors alike. Enjoying the laid back atmosphere and tropical ambience Key West is famous for during the day then celebrating the jubilance ...

  • Infinite Monkeys

    INFINITE MONKEYS, Williamson’s latest canvas of prose, waxes poetically on the days after the 2001 terrorist attacks in America that left us feeling violated and vulnerable, gardening, painting, relationships and the craft of writing itself. As alw...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

William Williamson has published 38 books.

William Williamson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Infinite Monkeys, was published in August 2018.

The first book by William Williamson, Tonight We're Serving Insanity For Supper, was published in December 2002.

Yes. William Williamson has 1 series.
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