Marta McDowell

I teach landscape history and horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden and is a popular lecturer and writer. My latest book is Gardening Can Be Murder, about the horticultural connections to crime fiction. Timber Press also published Unearthing The Secret Garden, Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life, The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder, New York Times-bestselling All the Presidents' Gardens, and Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life, now in its ninth printing. I was the 2019 recipient of the Garden Club of America's Sarah Chapman Francis Medal for outstanding literary achievement. My husband, Kirke, summarized by biography as “I am, therefore I dig.”