Nils V. Bockmann

NILS BOCKMANN holds an A.A from Cape Cod Community College, a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, and an M.A. from Suffolk University. He is a retired Cape Cod Community College special ed teacher and English Composition tutor. His short stories have appeared in Sea Change, The Write Stuff, and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. Peleg Nye, the Jonah of Cape Cod is his first historical biography.

"Such detail, wonderful sources, great use of census, newspapers, whaling records. I believe you give Nathaniel Philbrick a run for his money."

--Mary Sicchio, William B. Nickerson Room Archivist (Ret) and author of The Forgotten Cape, 1940-1960

Nils has been performing as a guitarist and vocalist in working bands for 5 decades in New England, New York, Florida and Aruba. He and his wife, Christine, live on Cape Cod with their Heinz 57-mix pup named Beans.

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