Andrea Wulf & Lillian Melcher

Teaches at New York Botanical Garden

Andrea Wulf is the author of five acclaimed books. The Brother Gardeners won the American Horticultural Society 2010 Book Award, and her books Founding Gardeners and The Invention of Nature were on the New York Times Best Seller List. Andrea has written for many newspapers including The Guardian, LA Times, Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.She writes a monthly column on the history of science for The Atlantic.

In 2014 she co-presented a four-part BBC TV garden series and she appears regularly on radio. Her latest book, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New Worldwon the prestigious Costa Biography Award 2015 in the UK, was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize 2015 and for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction 2016. The books was shortlisted for the LA Times Book Prize 2015 and was chosen as 10 Best Books of 2015 in The New York Times. She is a design historian trained at the Royal College of Art in London.

Lillian Melcher is a Boston-based illustrator. She is a graduate of Parsons, the New School for Design, and her first graphic novel, The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, is set to be published in 2019.