Wade Graham

Wade Graham is a landscape designer, historian, and writer based in Los Angeles. He is the author of a social history of gardens in America, American Eden: From Monticello to Central Park to Our Back Yards, What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are (HarperCollins, 2011), and has written on the environment, landscape, urbanism, and the arts for The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Los Angeles Times, Outside and other publications. He has a Ph.D. in American history and teaches urbanism and environmental policy at the School of Public Policy at Pepperdine University. Since 1999, he has been a trustee of Glen Canyon Institute, a Colorado River restoration group based in Salt Lake City, Utah.