Lawrence Goldstone

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1. Nicholas A. Basbanes

   Author of A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books, A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World, Among the Gently Mad: Strategies and Perspectives for the Book-Hunter in the 21st Century

2. Lawrence Goldstone

   Author of Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World, Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Booklore, Warmly Inscribed

3. John Dunning

   Author of Booked to Die, The Bookman's Wake, The Bookman's Promise

4. John Baxter

   Author of A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict

5. Susan Wise Bauer

   Author of The Well-educated Mind, The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, Revised and Updated Edition, The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 4: The Modern Age: From Victoria's Empire to the End of

6. Leona Rostenberg

   Author of Old Books, Rare Friends: Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion, Old Books in the Old World: Reminiscences of Book Buying Abroad

7. Henry Petroski

   Author of The Book on the Bookshelf

8. Tom Raabe

   Author of Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction

9. Harold Rabinowitz

   Author of A Passion For Books

10. Michael Dirda

    Author of Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life, Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education, Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments

11. Ariana Franklin

    Author of Mistress of the Art of Death, The Serpent's Tale (US) / The Death Maze (UK), Grave Goods (US) / Relics of the Dead (UK)

12. Paul Collins

    Author of Sixpence House

13. Estelle Ellis

    Author of At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries

14. John Maxwell Hamilton

    Author of Casanova Was a Book Lover: And Other Naked Truths Provocative Curiosities abt Writing Selling Reading Books

15. Ian C. Ellis

    Author of Book Finds, 3rd Edition: How to Find, Buy, and Sell Used and Rare Books

16. Lewis Buzbee

    Author of The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

17. Louis Bayard

    Author of The Pale Blue Eye, Mr. Timothy, The Black Tower

18. Lynne Tillman

    Author of Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co.

19. Larry McMurtry

    Author of Books: A Memoir

20. Anne Fadiman

    Author of Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader