Draft:Mac Griswold

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Mac Griswold is an American cultural historian and writer.[1]

Early life and education[edit]

She attended the Foxcroft School.[2]


Boxwood[3]

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Personal life[edit]

In 1967, she married investment banker Benjamin Griswold. Together they had two daughters. In 1979, she separated from her husband and moved to New York.[1]

Books[edit]

  • Washington's Gardens at Mount Vernon: Landscape of the Inner Man[5]
  • Pleasure of the Garden: Images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Harry N Abrams, 1987)[6]
  • The Golden Age of American Gardens: Proud Owners, Private Estates with Eleanor Weller[7]
  • The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island (Straus and Giroux)[8]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Island Profile: Mac Griswold, telling the story of Sylvester Manor". Shelter Island Reporter. July 12, 2013.
  2. ^ Times-Dispatch, Katherine Calos Richmond. "Mac Griswold reflects on Bunny Mellon: whimsical, deft, funny, unexpected, worldly yet a dreamer, a perfectionist worth watching and listening to, and always a very good friend". Richmond Times-Dispatch.
  3. ^ Menu, Gavin (August 3, 2016). "Safeguarding the Eternal Boxwood".
  4. ^ https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/12/garden/garden-history-sublime-and-ridiculous.html
  5. ^ https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB930886114195014900
  6. ^ https://shelterislandreporter.timesreview.com/2013/07/12/island-profile-mac-griswold-telling-the-story-of-sylvester-manor/
  7. ^ https://www.jstor.org/stable/1587034?refreqid=excelsior%3A1c98c7c31a59da392e53a1a8d4acc427
  8. ^ Klein, By Julia M. "Review: 'The Manor' by Mac Griswold". chicagotribune.com.

External links[edit]

Official website