Alan H. has worked as a bookseller at Harvard Book Store (his dream job) since 1992. He has a passion for history, particularly European, with a special emphasis on the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance and has an intense interest in the art of those periods as well. His other areas of expertise include (but are by no means limited to) the Pre-Raphaelites, all things nautical, local interest topics, and some surprising corners of U.S. history. He also admits to a weakness for literary/historical anecdotes and really terrible puns.