Nicholas A. Basbanes

Nicholas A. Basbanes has worked as an award-winning investigative reporter, a literary editor, a nationally syndicated columnist, and a freelance writer whose articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications. His first book, A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books, was a finalist for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Basbanes 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 name. He writes a regular column for Fine Books & Collections magazine and lectures widely on book-related issues. He and his wife, Constance, live in Massachusetts.