Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens by Andrea Wulf ISBN 13: 9780307744609

Andrea Wulf was born in India and moved to Germany as a child. She lives in London, where she trained as a design historian at the Royal College of Art. She is the author of The Brother Gardeners , long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2008 and winner of the American Horticultural Society 2010 Book Award, and of Founding Gardeners ; she is also the coauthor (with Emma Gieben-Gamal) of This Other Eden: Seven Great Gardens and 300 Years of English History . She has written for The Sunday Times , Financial Times , The Wall Street Journal , and Los Angeles Times , and she reviews for several newspapers, including The New York Times , The Guardian , and The Times Literary Supplement . www.andreawulf.com