Mac Keith Griswold
Mac Keith Griswold, journalist and garden historian, took her B.A. at McGill University, attended the Radcliffe Seminars in landscape design, and studied horticulture at the New York Botanical Gardens. She has taught landscape history at Sarah Lawrence College, where she was a recipient of the Noble Chair in Art and Cultural History, and has lectured widely in America and Europe. The author of three previous books of garden history, she is currently the director of archival research at the Sylvester Manor Project, Shelter Island, New York, where the papers and the site date to the earliest European colonization of America. In 2013 Farrar, Straus & Giroux published her history of Sylvester Manor, The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island. She has written frequently for magazines and journals, and for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Times Literary Supplement, and Landscape Architecture Magazine. She is a co-chair of the Sag Harbor Tree Fund, which plants trees in Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York.