James Sulzer’s new novel All That Smolders: A Mystery was named the One Book One Island book for 2026 by the Nantucket Atheneum. Other published works include a novel about Emily Dickinson, The Voice at the Door and a novel about John Keats, Writ in Water, as well as the novel Nantucket Daybreak and a trilogy of middle grade novels for children, The Card People. A year-round resident of Nantucket since 1982, he taught for 30 years and also produced countless “Sonic ID’s” for Public Radio. In his early years on the island, he labored as a commercial scalloper and sang professionally in a barbershop quartet.
