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Meet the Author: Andrea Wulf - a Reading, Discussion and Reception

"Magnificent Rebels - The First Romantics & The Invention of the Self"

Come and Join us for the reading of Magnificent Rebels by author Andrea Wulf, reception to come after reading.
Refreshments will be provided.
A heartfelt Dankeschön to the Halle Foundation for making this event possible.

Andrea Wulf is an award–winning author of seven acclaimed books, including the ‘Founding Gardeners’ and ‘The Invention of Nature’ which were both on the New York Times Best Seller List. She has written for New York Times, the Atlantic, the LA Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Guardian and many others. Her latest book Magnificent Rebels. The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self is published in Sept/Oct 2022 in the UK, US, Germany and several other countries.

She has lectured across the world – from the Royal Geographical Society and Royal Society in London to Monticello and the New York Public Library in the US, as well as literary festivals across the world. She is a Miller Scholar at the Santa Fe Institute, a three-time fellow of the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello and the Eccles British Library Writer in Residence 2013. She's a member of PEN American Center and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Andrea is a regular on radio and TV in the US, the UK and in Germany. The ZDF / Smithsonian Humboldt documentary won the Discovery Award 2019 / Science Film Festival. In 2019, she was part of the delegation that accompanied Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on his trip to Ecuador and Colombian ... following Humboldt's footsteps.

The “Brother Gardeners” was long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2008 and won the American Horticultural Society 2010 Book Award. “Founding Gardeners” and 'The Invention of Nature" were both on the New York Times Best Seller List.

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