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Nicholas A. Basbanes

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Nicholas A. Basbanes is an award-winning investigative journalist and a former literary editor of the Worcester Sunday Telegram. His first book, A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books, was a finalist in 1995 for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He was a recipient in 2008 of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in support of his latest book, On Paper: The EVERYTHING of Its Two Thousand Year History, just released by Knopf. He also writes the “Gently Mad” column for Fine Books & Collections magazine.

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