Onward and Upward in the Garden

This book follows the gardening writing work of Katharine Sergeant Angell who was a manuscript reader for The New Yorker. Within a few months on the job, she became the magazine’s first fiction editor, discovering and championing some now well known writers like Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, James Thurber, Marianne Moore, and her future husband, E. B. White.

After years of nurturing fiction, White shifted her focus to gardening writing. In 1958, she wrote a series of thirteen columns for The New Yorker exploring the history and literature of gardens, flower arranging, herbalists, and gardening developments. Two years after her passing in 1977, her husband E. B. White compiled and published this series, with an additional heartfelt introduction. This book is for garden and plant lovers who might be looking for something a bit more literary than how to garden books.

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