Kathryn Aalto

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Kathryn Aalto
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)landscape designer, historian, educator, author
Known forNew York Times Bestselling author

Kathryn Aalto is an American landscape designer, historian, educator and New York Times Bestselling author [1] based in Exeter, England. [2]

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Early life and education

Kathryn Aalto grew up in Escalon, California, where she developed a lifelong interest in landscape history, design and literature of place. [3] She was educated at the University of California at Berkeley, Western Washington University, the London College of Garden Design [4] and the University of Bristol, from which she received a Bachelor's in English, a Master's in English, a Diploma in Garden Design and a Master's in Garden History.

Career

Writing

Aalto wrote the non-fiction book The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh: A Walk Through the Forest that Inspired the Hundred Acre Wood, [5] published in 2015 by Timber Press, which became a New York Times Bestseller in February 2016. [1] It was featured on NPR's "All Things Considered" on October 26, 2015, and selected as a People magazine Best Pick in Nonfiction in November 2015. Extensive coverage of the book included an article [6] and review [7] in The Washington Post , articles in The Boston Globe [8] and The Oregonian , [5] as well as radio interviews on NPR, [9] WAMC [10] and MPR. [11] She is also the author of Nature and Human Intervention [12] about the Italian garden designer Luciano Guibbilei. [13]

In 2020, Aalto authored Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World . [3]

Teaching and public speaking

As an educator, she has taught American Literature of Nature and Place, Critical Thinking and Composition and other writing courses at Western Washington University, Everett Community College and Exeter College where she is an adjunct lecturer. [14] A dynamic public speaker, Kathryn Aalto lectures widely, both in the United States and England, to libraries, schools, historical societies, botanical gardens, universities and civic clubs. Past venues have included Harvard Universities Arnold Arboretum, [15] The New York Public Library, [16] the Northwest Flower and Garden Show [17] and the Virginia Festival of the Book. [18]

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  2. ↑ Youlden, Mary (31 August 2013). "Exeter Lives: Kathryn Aalto". The Exeter Daily. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  3. 1 2 Moraes, Miranda de (2020-05-27). "Kathryn Aalto's 'Writing Wild'". The Santa Barbara Independent. Retrieved 2023-04-27.
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