They are the parents of two daughters, and live in North Grafton, Mass. With his wife, Constance Basbanes, he writes a monthly review of children's books for Literary Features Syndicate, which they established in 1993, and which appears in a dozen newspapers. In 2004, he began writing the "Gently Mad" column for Fine Books & Collections magazine. In addition to his books, Basbanes has written for numerous newspapers, magazines, and journals, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Smithsonian, Civilization, and New England Quarterly among them, and lectures widely on book-related subjects. Goddard Library of Clark University, which has established a student book collecting competition in his honor. Richly anecdotal and fully documented, it combines the perspective of historical research with the immediacy of investigative journalism.
He is a former president of the Friends of the Robert H. A Gentle Madness, finalist for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle award, is an adventure among the afflicted. An award-winning investigative reporter during the early 1970s, Basbanes was literary editor of the Worcester Sunday Telegram from 1978 to 1991, and for eight years after that wrote a nationally syndicated column on books and authors.
Basbanes graduated from Bates College in 1965, received a master of arts degree from Pennsylvania State University in 1968, and served as a naval officer aboard the aircraft carrier Oriskany in the Tonkin Gulf in 19. A native of Lowell, Massachusetts, Nicholas A.
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