Wise Trees

Author Biography

Diane Cook and Len Jenshel are two of America's foremost landscape photographers. For the past four decades their work has explored issues involving beauty, culture and the control of nature. Their previous books include Aquarium (2003), Hot Spots: America’s Volcanic Landscape (1996), Travels in the American West (1992) and Charmed Places (1988), and they have had exhibitions at the Yokohama Museum in Tokyo, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the International Center of Photography in New York City. Their work is represented in more than one hundred major collections worldwide. They have been contributing photographers to the National Geographic for the past twenty years, and their work has also been published in The New Yorker, Harpers, The New York Times Magazine, Washington Post Magazine, Audubon, and many other magazines. They were married in 1983 and began collaborating in 1991. They live in New York City. Verlyn Klinkenborg is the author of six books: Making Hay (1986), The Last Fine Time (1991), The Rural Life (2003), Timothy: Or, Notes of an Abject Reptile (2006), Several Short Sentences About Writing (2011), and More Scenes From the Rural Life (2013). His articles and essays have appeared nearly everywhere. He has taught creative writing at Pomona College, Harvard, and Columbia, and is currently a member of the English Department and the School of Forestry at Yale University. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007 and was a member of the editorial board of the New York Times from 1997 to 2013. Mr. Klinkenborg lives in Manhattan and Columbia County, New York, with his wife, Alexandra Enders.