Nicholas Basbanes
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Basbanes in China conducting research for his book, On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History.
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| Born |
May 25, 1943 Lowell, Massachusetts |
| Occupation | Author, journalist and lecturer |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Bates College (BA), Pennsylvania State University (MA) |
| Genre | Nonfiction, journalism |
| Subject | Books and book culture |
| Spouse | Constance Valentzas Basbanes |
| Children |
Barbara Basbanes Richter Nicole Basbanes Claire |
| Relatives |
Georgia Koumoutseas Basbanes, mother John G. Basbanes, father |
Barbara Basbanes Richter
Georgia Koumoutseas Basbanes, mother
Nicholas Andrew Basbanes (born May 25, 1943, in Lowell, Massachusetts) is an American author who writes and lectures widely about books and book culture. His subjects have included 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) and the invention of paper and its effect on civilization (On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History).
Nicholas Basbanes is the son of two first-generation Greek-Americans. He graduated from Lowell High School in 1961, and earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, in 1965. Following a year of graduate study at Pennsylvania State University, he did research for his master’s thesis in Washington, D.C., then entered U. S. Navy Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island. He attended the Defense Information School in the spring of 1968 and received his master’s degree in journalism in 1969 while serving aboard the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany (CV-34) during the first of two combat deployments he made to Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, off the coast of Vietnam.
Discharged from active duty in 1971, Basbanes went to work as a general assignment reporter for The Evening Gazette in Worcester, Massachusetts, specializing in investigative journalism. In 1978, he was appointed books editor of a sister publication, the Worcester Sunday Telegram, a full-time position that included writing a weekly column for which he would interview more than a thousand authors over the next twenty-one years.
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