Mac Griswold is an American cultural historian and writer.[1][2]

Early life and education

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She attended the Foxcroft School.[3]

Boxwood[4]

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Personal life

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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

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  • Washington's Gardens at Mount Vernon: Landscape of the Inner Man[6]
  • Pleasure of the Garden: Images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Harry N Abrams, 1987)[7]
  • The Golden Age of American Gardens: Proud Owners, Private Estates with Eleanor Weller[8]
  • The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island (Straus and Giroux)[9]
  • I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise[10][11]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Island Profile: Mac Griswold, telling the story of Sylvester Manor". Shelter Island Reporter. July 12, 2013.
  2. ^ Zajdman, Josh (2022-11-15). "Author Mac Griswold on the Glamour—And the Grit—of Bunny Mellon". Vogue. Retrieved 2024-09-20.
  3. ^ Times-Dispatch, Katherine Calos Richmond (11 February 2017). "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.
  4. ^ Menu, Gavin (August 3, 2016). "Safeguarding the Eternal Boxwood".
  5. ^ https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/12/garden/garden-history-sublime-and-ridiculous.html
  6. ^ https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB930886114195014900
  7. ^ "Island Profile: Mac Griswold, telling the story of Sylvester Manor". 12 July 2013.
  8. ^ Jordan, Harriet (1994). "Reviewed work: The Golden Age of American Gardens: Proud Owners, Private Estates, 1890-1940, Mac Griswold, Eleanor Weller". Garden History. 22 (2): 239. doi:10.2307/1587034. JSTOR 1587034.
  9. ^ Klein, By Julia M. (19 July 2013). "Review: 'The Manor' by Mac Griswold". chicagotribune.com.
  10. ^ https://www.wsj.com/articles/ill-build-a-stairway-to-paradise-book-review-gardening-with-bunny-mellon-11668782928
  11. ^ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/mac-griswold/ill-build-a-stairway-to-paradise/
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