![]() ![]() I lecture widely on a variety of subjects, and write the Gently Mad column for Fine Books and Collections Magazine. My first book, "A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books," was a finalist in 1995 for the National Book Critics Circle Award. My previous work, "On Paper: The Everything of Its Two Thousand Year History" was one of three finalists for the 2014 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction awarded by the American Library Association and the Carnegie Corporation and also the recipient of an NEH grant. ![]() ![]() In 2016, I was named a Public Scholar by the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of work on this book. I've written ten books, the most recent titled "Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow," which was published in June 2020, and has since been named a Book of the Year by the Times Literary Supplement (TLS). ![]()
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