Esteemed landscape architect, garden scholar & lecturer CECE HAYDOCK introduces Edith Wharton (1862-1937), the first woman author to win the Pulitzer Prize, as garden designer & influential garden design critic. Wharton's "Italian Villas and Their Gardens" (1904) remains a scholarly resource on the subject today. With colorful illustrations, Haydock will describe eight Roman villas and gardens that influenced Wharton's own home and novels. She will describe how ancient Roman design influences design traditions today.

Haydock has researched and written about historic Italian, French and American gardens. She is a visiting lecturer at the NY Botanic Garden and an adjunct professor at Long Island University. In private practice today, she trends toward landscape sustainability.