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Becoming Elizabeth Lawrence: Discovered Letters of a Southern Gardener
by Emily Herring Wilson

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Praise for Elizabeth Lawrence

“Elizabeth Lawrence is one of the best writers we’ve ever had. Her three major books are horticultural classics, fully a match for anything written by such British gardening writers as Gertrude Jekyll and Vita Sackville-West. Furthermore, she transcends the usual category of ‘gardening writer’: she wrote about gardening only in the same sense the M.F.K. Fisher writes about cooking.”
-Allen Lacy, former gardening columnist for The New York Times

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Advance praise for Becoming Elizabeth Lawrence

“Opening this collection is like unsealing a hundred envelopes in which a close woman friend confides her changing inner life. Elizabeth Lawrence flowers here from Southern girl to famous gardener. So does the friendship that helped her grow and flourish. We seem to be seated with her friend Ann, reading over her shoulder, smiling.”
-Doris Betts, author of The Sharp Teeth of Love

Two Gardeners: Katherine S. White and Elizabeth Lawrence: a Friendship in Letters

"Savor it; read it slowly if you can, because it will be a long time before such a treasure surfaces again."
-Amy Stewart, San Francisco Chronicle

“This book is a classic, no less than Mrs. White's magnificent Onward and Upward in the Garden and Miss Lawrence's Gardening for Love and A Southern Garden."
-Allen Lacy, author of A Year in Our Gardens

"Two Gardeners is one of the finest gardening books published in years, largely because it reveals as much about the character of these two remarkable women as it does about the plants they loved."
-Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Times Book Review

“If you are feeling frantic about all those weeds growing in your garden, as well as some impossible workload, you might take to your hammock for a day with Two Gardeners. The break will do you good and so will reading about two other extremely harried women, deadline-driven writers and devoted gardeners."
 -Anne Raver, gardening editor for The New York Times

No One Gardens Alone

“Admired by writers such as Joseph Mitchell and Eudora Welty, Lawrence's writing was often about people and philosophy as well as planting. . . .Wilson's account is clear and unembellished, and her work provides a complete portrait of an independent, private and multifaceted woman.”
Publishers Weekly

“Lawrence's life is celebrated with joy, reverence, and clarity in this captivating biography of the quintessential horticulturist whose columns and books about her private Southern garden inspired gardeners throughout the country.”
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