Andrea Wulf

Andrea Wulf is a biographer. She is the author of The Brother Gardeners, published in April 2008. It was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and received a CBHL Annual Literature Award in 2010. She was born in India, moved to Germany as a child, and now resides in Britain.

Books in order of publication:

This Other Eden: Seven Great Gardens and 300 Years of English History, Little, Brown, 2005

The Brother Gardeners: A Generation of Gentlemen Naturalists and the Birth of an Obsession, Vintage Books, 2008

Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation, Knopf Doubleday, 2012

Chasing Venus: the Race to Measure the Heavens (2012)

The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World, Knopf, 2015,

The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, Pantheon, 2019 (co-authored with Lillian Melcher – illustrator)

Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self, Knopf, 2022