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Nicholas A. Basbanes
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'');〔Michael Dirda, “Genuine Book Cases,” ''Washington Post'', July 30, 1995.〕 the history and future of libraries (''Patience & Fortitude'');〔Merle Rubin, “Can you have too many books? Musings on Bibliophiles From Classical Alexandria to the Internet,” ''Christian Science Monitor'', December 27, 2001.()〕 the “willful destruction of books” and the “determined effort to rescue them” (''A Splendor of Letters'');〔André Bernard, “Fear of Book Assasination () Haunts Bibliophile’s Musings,” ''The New York Observer'', December 15, 2003. ()〕 “the power of the printed word to stir the world” (''Every Book Its Reader'')〔Brigitte Weeks, “The Manifold Beauties of Books,” ''Washington Post'', January 5, 2006. ()〕 and the invention of paper and its effect on civilization (''On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History'').〔Martin A. Hubbe,"On Paper - A Celebration of Two Millennia of the Work and Craft of Papermakers," ''BioResources,'' 8(4), 4791-4792, November 2013.()〕
== Early life and education ==
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 during the first of two combat deployments he made to Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, off the coast of Vietnam.〔Chauncey Mabe, “The Book On Books: Nicholas Basbanes Brings a Journalist's Training and Sensibility to Writing About, well, Writing, and Books,” ''South Florida Sun Sentinel'' (Fort Lauderdale, FL), March 14, 2004.
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