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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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	Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities 3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 2,307 ratings — published 2009 — 15 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army & Other Diabolical Insects 3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 1,168 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers 3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 563 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks 4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 371 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms 3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 357 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From the Ground Up: The Story of a First Garden 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 320 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Bookstore In America 3.35 of 5 stars 3.35 avg rating — 263 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gilding The Lily: Inside The Cut Flower Industry 4.75 of 5 stars 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The 50 Mile Bouquet: Discovering the World of Local, Seasonal, Sustainable Flowers by Debra Prinzing, David Perry (Photographs), Amy Stewart (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shake 'Em Up!: A Practical Handbook of Polite Drinking by Virginia Elliott, Phil D. Stong, Amy Stewart (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The male doesn't eat - it doesn't even have a mouth or an anus - so it does nothing but mate until death.”
― Amy Stewart, Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army & Other Diabolical Insects

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“People here had redwood trees in their backyards. You were never far from the infinite.”
― Amy Stewart, The Last Bookstore In America

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“Perhaps it makes sense that a creature that doesn't get ill and has few enemies among its neighbors would also live agelessly and die without explanation or cause--would simply vanish without a trace.”
― Amy Stewart, The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms

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