Roger B Swain Editor

Henry Beston was a founding spirit of the modern environmental movement. A New England naturalist, he had his first great success with Outermost House, the journal of a solitary year spent on a Cape Cod beach. Mr. Beston’s “chosen home,” however, was a farm in Maine where he wrote Herbs and the Earth. Roger B. Swain was the longtime host of the gardening television series The Victory Garden on PBS and People, Places, and Plants on HGTV. He holds a PhD in Biology from Harvard University and has written five books about gardening. Bill McKibben is a New England-based environmentalist, educator, and writer. He is the editor of the Library of America volume, American Earth, and author of more than a dozen books including the bestselling Falter, Deep Economy, and The End of Nature, which was the first book to warn the general public about the climate crisis. He lives in Vermont.