# Five College Seminar in Book History with Nicholas Basbanes (Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies) #### calendar\_today Date and Time **October 31, 2024** 05:00PM - 05:00PM EDT #### pin\_drop Location **Online (Zoom). RSVP needed** [ here arrow\_circle\_right ](https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqd-yspzMjEtZ9mm4CBt_QwsTcF56kUOIT) More information, updates, and registration link at . Nicholas A. Basbanes is the author of ten critically acclaimed works of cultural history, with a particular emphasis on various aspects of books and book culture. *A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books*, his first book, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction in 1995. *On Paper: The Everything of Its Two Thousand Year History* (2013, Knopf) was a finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, and was named a best book of the year by seven major publications. His most recent book, *Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow* (Knopf, 2020), received top honors in nonfiction from the Massachusetts Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Library of Congress, for the Massachusetts Book Award. In 2016, he was awarded a Public Scholar research fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanities, his second NEH grant. His articles, essays, OpEds, and reviews have appeared in *The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Globe, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Humanities, Smithsonian, Civilization* and *The Book Collector*. During the pandemic, he began writing a series of signed biographical essays of the principal correspondents of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning for *[The Brownings’ Correspondence](https://www.browningscorrespondence.com/biographical-sketches/?nameId=572)*, a publishing project funded since its inception in 1984 by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and now in its twenty-eighth volume. He also writes the “Gently Mad” column for [*Fine Books & Collections* ](https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/)magazine, a quarterly, and lecture widely on book-related subjects. This talk will be held on Zoom. Please register [here](https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqd-yspzMjEtZ9mm4CBt_QwsTcF56kUOIT). See also:- [ Lecture ](/event-categories/lecture) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/node/1856011/event-feed.ics) Copy link link