About Amy Stewart
"A passionate and inquisitive writer"-- Boston Globe "Her ease in gliding from worms to plants to humans
will remind readers of John McPhee's essays on canoes, oranges, the
geology of America."-- Providence Journal
Amy Stewart tends a poison garden of her own in northern California. She is the award-winning author of four books on the perils and pleasures of the natural world.
Her essays and commentaries have appeared in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Garden Design, Organic Gardening, and elsewhere. She's been featured on NPR, Good Morning America and CBS Sunday Morning.
Stewart lives in Eureka, California, with her husband Scott Brown. They own an antiquarian bookstore called Eureka Books and tend a flock of unruly hens in their backyard.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) granted her a Creative Writing Fellowship for 2006.
She is the author of From the Ground Up: The Story of a First Garden, The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms, and the New York Times bestselling Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers. Her newest book is Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities (Algonquin Books, May 2009).
Recent honors and awards include:
- NEA grant recipient, 2006
- California Horticultural Society's Writer's Award 2005
- Barnes & Noble 'Discover Great New Authors' Program
- Discovery Channel Book Club Selection
- Book translations into Dutch, Japanese, French, and Korean
- Rave reviews from the New York Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Entertainment Weekly, and others
- National Public Radio guest; frequent radio and television appearances
- Lecture and workshops at the American Museum of Natural History, Northwest Flower & Garden Show, United States Botanic Garden, and California Academy of Sciences
Amy Stewart blogs with a group of opinionated gardeners at GardenRant and on her own at Dirt.
Stop by and check it out.
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Ordering Books
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