Nicholas A. Basbanes

About The Author

Nicholas A. Basbanes is the author of nine works of cultural history, with a particular emphasis on various aspects of books, book history, and book culture. In addition to his books, Basbanes has written for numerous newspapers, magazines, and journals, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post, and lectures widely on a variety of cultural subjects. Among his most well-known titles are A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books and On Paper: The Everything of Its Two Thousand Year History.

Books by Nicholas A. Basbanes

Beginning with a Bash
By Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Introduction by Nicholas A. Basbanes
Leonidas Witherall, the sleuth who looks like Shakespeare, must prove a man innocent after he is discovered in a second-hand bookshop beside the murdered body of a local professor in this humorous and fast-paced mystery from the author of the beloved Asey Mayo series.
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