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  <name><![CDATA[Amy Stewart]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amystewart.com&quot;&gt;Amy Stewart&lt;/a&gt; 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 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amystewart.com/speaking.html&quot;&gt;Speaking Engagements page of her website.
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Amy's online almost every day at her own blog, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.amystewart.com&quot;&gt;Dirt by Amy Stewart&lt;/a&gt;, and with a group of highly opinionated gardeners at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gardenrant.com&quot;&gt;GardenRant&lt;/a&gt;&quot;]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>        
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[From the Ground Up: The Story of a First Garden]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Amy Stewart]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Gilding the Lily: Inside the Cut Flower Industry]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Last Bookstore In America]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Governance of Water and Sanitation in Africa: Achieving Sustainable Development through Partnerships]]></title>
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