![]() ![]() Navy Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island. Following a year of graduate study at Pennsylvania State University, he did research for his master's thesis in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Lowell High School in 1961 and earned a bachelor's degree in English from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine in 1965. Nicholas Basbanes is the son of two first-generation Greek-Americans. His subjects include the "eternal passion for books" ( A Gentle Madness) the history and future of libraries ( Patience & Fortitude) the "willful destruction of books" and the "determined effort to rescue them" ( A Splendor of Letters) "the power of the printed word to stir the world" ( Every Book Its Reader) the invention of paper and its effect on civilization ( On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History) and an exploration of Longfellow's life and art ( Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow). Nicholas Andrew Basbanes (born May 25, 1943, in Lowell, Massachusetts) is an American author who writes and lectures about authors, books, and book culture. ![]()
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