ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Victoria Johnson is the author of three books, including the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic.

She is a professor of urban policy and planning at Hunter College in New York City and holds a doctorate in sociology from Columbia University and an undergraduate degree in philosophy from Yale.

Johnson’s latest book, Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World, is the first-ever biography of Frederic Church (1826-1900), the virtuosic painter who put American art on the map of the world.