PROFILE

ANDREA WULF

Brought up in Germany, Wulf studied design history at the Royal College of Art in London. She has written for publications including The New York Times and the Guardian, and her previous books include The Brother Gardeners: A Generation of Gentlemen Naturalists and the Birth of an Obsession ( Vintage, 2008). She was the 2013 British Library writer-in-residence in the Eccles Centre for American Studies.