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Works by Nicholas A. Basbanes - A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for… 2,414 copies, 31 reviews
- Patience & Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and… 1,142 copies, 7 reviews
- A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World 845 copies, 5 reviews
- Among the Gently Mad: Perspectives and Strategies for the Book Hunter in… 767 copies, 14 reviews
- Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World 647 copies, 6 reviews
- On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History 241 copies, 9 reviews
- Editions & Impressions: My Twenty Years on the Book Beat 164 copies, 2 reviews
- A World of Letters: Yale University Press, 1908-2008 59 copies, 1 review
- About the Author: Inside the Creative Process 32 copies
- Fit for a Czar 2 copies
- 'What some Bibliophiles ...' 1 copy
- Among the Gently Mad: Strategies and Perspectives for the Book Hunter in… 1 copy
- "Touching the Hand" from A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and… 1 copy
- Peters bok 1 copy
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Basbanes has 1 media appearance. Nicholas A. Basbanes has 9 past events. (show)  Nicholas A. Basbanes Nicholas A. Basbanes ( On paper) Nicholas A. Basbanes is an award-winning investigative journalist and was literary editor of the Worcester Sunday Telegram. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and Smithsonian, and he is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Basbanes lives in North Grafton, Massachusetts, with his wife. (added from Random House)… (more) Nicholas A. Basbanes Nicholas A. Basbanes ( On paper) Nicholas A. Basbanes is an award-winning investigative journalist and was literary editor of the Worcester Sunday Telegram. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and Smithsonian, and he is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Basbanes lives in North Grafton, Massachusetts, with his wife. (added from Random House)… (more) Nicholas A. Basbanes Nicholas A. Basbanes ( On paper) Nicholas A. Basbanes is an award-winning investigative journalist and was literary editor of the Worcester Sunday Telegram. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and Smithsonian, and he is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Basbanes lives in North Grafton, Massachusetts, with his wife. (added from Random House)… (more) Nicholas A. Basbanes Nicholas A. Basbanes ( On paper) Nicholas A. Basbanes is an award-winning investigative journalist and was literary editor of the Worcester Sunday Telegram. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and Smithsonian, and he is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Basbanes lives in North Grafton, Massachusetts, with his wife. (added from Random House)… (more) Nicholas A. Basbanes Nicholas A. Basbanes ( On paper) Nicholas A. Basbanes is an award-winning investigative journalist and was literary editor of the Worcester Sunday Telegram. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and Smithsonian, and he is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Basbanes lives in North Grafton, Massachusetts, with his wife. (added from Random House)… (more) Nicholas A. Basbanes Nicholas A. Basbanes ( On paper) Nicholas A. Basbanes is an award-winning investigative journalist and was literary editor of the Worcester Sunday Telegram. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and Smithsonian, and he is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Basbanes lives in North Grafton, Massachusetts, with his wife. (added from Random House)… (more) Nicholas A. Basbanes Nicholas A. Basbanes ( On paper) Nicholas A. Basbanes is an award-winning investigative journalist and was literary editor of the Worcester Sunday Telegram. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and Smithsonian, and he is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Basbanes lives in North Grafton, Massachusetts, with his wife. (added from Random House)… (more) Nicholas A. Basbanes Nicholas A. Basbanes ( On paper) Nicholas A. Basbanes is an award-winning investigative journalist and was literary editor of the Worcester Sunday Telegram. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and Smithsonian, and he is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Basbanes lives in North Grafton, Massachusetts, with his wife. (added from Random House)… (more) Nicholas Basbanes: Adventures Among the Gently Mad - Twenty Years on the Book Beat Nicholas BasbanesSandwich Reads Together sponsors a presentation by the award-winning reporter who interviewed the librarian who saved the Sarajevo Haggadah. Well known for writing about books, bibliophiles, and various aspects of book culture, Nicholas Basbanes has worked as an award-winning investigative reporter, a literary editor, a lecturer, and a nationally syndicated columnist. He is the author of "Every Book Its Reader: the Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World" and other titles on book culture and bibliophiles. The Sarajevo Haggadah is featured in our Sandwich Reads Together 2009 main book selection, "People of the Book" by Geraldine Brooks. (libfox)… (more) Event location: Sandwich Public Library, 142 Main Street, Sandwich, MA 02563
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| Canonical name | | | Legal name | | | Other names | | | Date of birth | | | Date of death | | | Burial location | | | Gender | | | Nationality | | | Country (for map) | | | Birthplace | | | Place of death | | | Places of residence | | | Education | | | Occupations | | | Relationships | | | Organizations | | | Awards and honors | | | Agents | | | Short biography | A native of Lowell, Massachusetts, Nicholas A. Basbanes graduated from Bates College in 1965, received a master of arts degree from Pennsylvania State University in 1968, and served as a naval officer aboard the aircraft carrier Oriskany in the Tonkin Gulf in 1969 and 1970. An award-winning investigative reporter during the early 1970s, Basbanes was literary editor of the Worcester Sunday Telegram from 1978 to 1991, and for eight years after that wrote a nationally syndicated column on books and authors. He is a former president of the Friends of the Robert H. Goddard Library of Clark University, which has established a student book collecting competition in his honor. In addition to his books, Basbanes has written for numerous newspapers, magazines, and journals, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Smithsonian, Civilization , and New England Quarterly among them, and lectures widely on book-related subjects. In 2004, he began writing the "Gently Mad" column for Fine Books & Collections magazine. With his wife, Constance Basbanes, he writes a monthly review of children's books for Literary Features Syndicate, which they established in 1993, and which appears in a dozen newspapers. They are the parents of two daughters, and live in North Grafton, Mass.  | |
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