Emmet, Alan
EMMET, Alan
EMMET, Alan. American. Genres: Novels, Homes/Gardens, Horticulture, History. Career: Historic Landscape Preservation, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, course assistant, 1978-81; Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, consultant, 1982-92; National Trust for Historic Preservation, consultant, 1993-94; full time writer, 1994-. Publications: (with D.C. Allen and others) Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Changing of a Landscape, 1978; So Fine a Prospect: Historic Gardens of New England, 1996; The Mr. and Mrs. Club, 2001. Contributor to periodicals. Address: 224 Concord Rd, Westford, MA 01886, U.S.A.
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