Before Paper: The Search for the World’s Earliest Writings

by Nicholas A. Basbanes

320 pages, Hardcover

Expected publication July 27, 2027

About the author

Nicholas A. Basbanes is an award-winning investigative journalist and was literary editor of the Worcester Sunday Telegram. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and Smithsonian, and he is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Basbanes lives in North Grafton, Massachusetts.