My Summer in a Garden

This edition includes the transcript of the judge's decision in favour of Grove Press in the 1959 censorship trial and new notes by Keith Cushman.

<b>Charles Dudley Warner</b> was born in Massachusetts in 1829. After practicing law in Chicago, he moved to Connecticut and became an associate editor and publisher of <i>The Hartford Courant</i>. In addition to writing travel essays for the <i>Courant</i> and for <i>Harper’s</i> magazine, as well as several novels, he collaborated with Mark Twain on <i>The Gilded Age</i>. He died in 1900.<br><br><b>Michael Pollan</b> is the author of the <i>New York Times</i> bestseller <i>The Botany of Desire</i>, and <i>Second Nature</i>, named one of the best gardening books of the twentieth century by the American Horticultural Society. He is a contributing editor to <i>Harper’s</i> magazine and a contributing writer at <i>The New York Times Magazine</i>.