Quote of the day
After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.
Nicholas A. Basbanes
Born: May 25, 1943 (age 82)
Bio: Nicholas Andrew Basbanes is an American author who writes and lectures widely about books and book culture.
Known for:
- A Gentle Madness (1995)
- World of letters (2003)
- Among the gently mad (2002)
- Every Book Its Reader (2005)







