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Author kathryn aalto
Kathryn Aalto is an American landscape designer, historian, educator and New York Times Bestselling author based in Exeter, England.
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Early life
Kathryn Aalto grew up between San Francisco and the Sierras in California's San Joaquin Valley where she developed a lifelong interest in landscape history, design and literature. She was educated at the University of California at Berkeley, Western Washington University, the London College of Garden Design and the University of Bristol, from which she received a Bachelor’s in English, a Master’s in English, a Diploma in Garden Design and a Master’s in Garden History.
Books
Kathryn Aalto is best known for her book, The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh: A Walk Through the Forest that Inspired the Hundred Acre Wood, published in 2015 by Timber Press, which became a New York Times Bestseller in February 2016. It was featured on NPR's "All Things Considered" on October 26, 2015 and selected as a People magazine Best Pick in Nonfiction in November 2015. Extensive coverage of the book included an article and review in The Washington Post, articles in The Boston Globe and The Oregonian, as well as radio interviews on NPR, WAMC and MPR. She is also the author of Nature and Human Intervention for Italian garden designer Luciano Guibbilei.
Teaching and public speaking
As an educator, she has taught American Literature of Nature and Place, Critical Thinking and Composition and other writing courses at Western Washington University, Everett Community College and Exeter College where she is an adjunct lecturer. A dynamic public speaker, Kathryn Aalto lectures widely, both in the United States and England, on landscape history and creative careers to libraries, schools, historical societies, botanical gardens, universities and civic clubs. Past venues have included Harvard Universities Arnold Arboretum, The New York Public Library, the Northwest Flower and Garden Show and the Virginia Festival of the Book. She also gives inspirational talks on interdisciplinary careers, creativity and writing.
Personal life
Kathryn Aalto and her partner, a professor at the University of Exeter, have three children. They reside in Exeter, England and have had a rural home outside Seattle since 1993. She has lived in Escalon, Berkeley, Seattle, Monroe and Exeter, England.