200th Anniversary Of Bowdoin’s Class Of 1825

Longfellow Days Joins Bowdoin College In Celebrating The 200th Anniversary Of The Notable Graduating Class Of 1825, A Group Of Accomplished Writers Including: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jonathan Cilley, And Other Statesmen, Lawyers, And  Professionals Who Collectively Brought The College A Considerable Amount Of Fame.

Schedule:

4:30 Pm - Talk By Nicholas Basbanes

“Meeting Of The Minds: Longfellow, Hawthorne, And The Productive Influence Of Their Artistic Wives”

A National Endowment For The Humanities Public Scholar, Nicholas A. Basbanes Is The Author Of Ten Works Of Nonfiction, Including A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, And The Eternal Passion For Books, A Finalist In 1996 For The National Book Critics Circle Award In Nonfiction, And On Paper: The Everything Of Its 2,000-Year History, One Of Three Finalists In 2014 For The Andrew Carnegie Medal For Excellence In Nonfiction. His Most Recent Book, Cross Of Snow: A Life Of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Was Awarded “Top Honors” In Nonfiction In 2020 For The Massachusetts Book Award Given Annually By The Massachusetts Center For The Book, An Affiliate Of The Library Of Congress, And Was Named A Book Of The Year By The Times Literary Supplement (London) And The Christian Science Monitor. A Work-In-Progress, Before Paper: Unlocking The World’s Earliest Writings, Is Under Contract With Yale University Press. His Articles And Essays Have Appeared In The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Globe, Humanities, Smithsonian, Civilization And The Book Collector. For The Past Eight Years, He Has Been Writing Signed Biographical Sketches Of The Principal Correspondents Of Robert And Elizabeth Barrett Browning For The Brownings’s Correspondence, A Publishing Initiative Of Wedgestone Press Funded Principally Since Its Inception In 1964 By The National Endowment For The Humanities, And Now In Its 31th Volume. He Also Writes The Gently Mad Column For Fine Books & Collections, A Quarterly Publication, And Lectures Widely On Book-Related Subjects. He And His Wife Constance Live In Massachusetts.

Location:  Kresge Hall