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Andrea Wulf
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Andrea Wulf was born in India and moved to Germany as a child. She trained as a design historian at the Royal College of Art and is the author of The Brother Gardeners (longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2008 and winner of the American Horticultural Society 2010 Book Award), The Founding Gardeners, Chasing Venus and the co-author (with Emma Gieben-Gamal) of This Other Eden: Seven Great Gardens and 300 Years of English History. She has written for The New York Times, the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times and many others. She lives in London.

Books by Andrea Wulf

The Founding Gardeners

The New York Times bestseller - a unique portrait of the founding fathers, exploring how their passion for gardens and nature influenced the birth of the American nation.

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Chasing Venus

The fascinating story of the world's first international scientific collaboration.

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The Brother Gardeners

A wonderfully readable investigation of the origins of the modern garden in 18th-century England. Popular history at its finest.

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