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Amy Stewart

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Amy Stewart lives in northern California. Her essays and commentaries have appeared in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Garden Design, Organic Gardening, and elsewhere. She's been featured on NPR, Good Morning America and CBS Sunday Morning.

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) granted her a Creative Writing Fellowship for 2006, and she's the winner of the California Horticultural Society's Writers Award.

Stewart travels the country speaking to audiences at bookstores, botanical gardens, garden clubs, and college and museum lecture series. She also speaks to horticultural industry groups. To find out more, and read testimonials from her audiences, visit the Speaking Engagements page of her website.
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avg rating: 3.86 | 559 ratings | 206 reviews | 8 distinct works | 10 fans
Flower Confidential: The Good,... Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers
by Amy Stewart (Goodreads author)
avg rating 3.85 — 202 ratings — published 2007
3 editions
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Wicked Plants: The Weed That K... Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
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avg rating 3.82 — 194 ratings — published 2009
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From the Ground Up: The Story... From the Ground Up: The Story of a First Garden
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avg rating 4.00 — 75 ratings — published 2001
2 editions
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The Earth Moved: On the Remark... The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms
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avg rating 3.88 — 72 ratings — published 2004
2 editions
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Gilding the Lily: Inside the C... Gilding the Lily: Inside the Cut Flower Industry
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avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2009
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Flower Confidential Flower Confidential
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating
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The Last Bookstore In America The Last Bookstore In America
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The Governance of Water and Sa... The Governance of Water and Sanitation in Africa: Achieving Sustainable Development through Partnerships
by Tim S. Gray, Amy Stewart (Goodreads author)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009
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Amy Stewart on tour for the book "Wicked Plants: A Book of Botanical Atrocities"
Author appearance, February 27, 2010 08:45AM
Blue Door Gardens Design, Inc., 1325 Prospect Lane, Redlands, CA, The United States

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Amy Stewart on tour for the book "Wicked Plants: A Book of Botanical Atrocities"
Author appearance, April 16, 2010 06:30PM
Gallery Bookshop, Main and Kasten Streets, Mendocino, CA, The United States

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Amy Stewart on tour for the book "Wicked Plants: A Book of Botanical Atrocities"
Author appearance, April 17, 2010 02:00PM
Copperfield's Books, 140 Kentucky St., Petaluma, CA, The United States

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Wicked Plants: The W... Amy added:
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September 04, 2008
An Evening with Amy Stewart
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date: September 10, 2008 06:30PM
location: Gallery Bookshop, Mendocino, Main Street, Mendocino, CA, The United States
description: Author Amy Stewart talks about gardening, life with chickens, and her latest book, Flower Confidential, a globe-trotting, behind-the-scenes look at the dazzling world of flowers.

Stewart follows a rose from the remote Ecuadoran greenhouse where it's grown to the American retailer where it's finally sold, and visits a huge, stock-exchange-like Dutch flower auction. Stewart's floral romanticism -- she admits early on that she's "always had a generalized, smutty sort of lust for flo...more

August 27, 2008
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August 09, 2008
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The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber (Paperback)
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U and I: A True Stor... Amy gave 5 of 5 stars to:
U and I: A True Story (Paperback)
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