Landscape Architect, Author (26-Apr-1822 — 28-Aug-1903)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Julius Gy Fabos; Gordon T. Milde; V. Michael Weinmayr. Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.: Founder of Landscape Architecture in America. University of Massachusetts Press. 1968. 114pp. Liberally illustrated, with a fold-out of Stanford University.

Albert Fein. Frederick Law Olmsted and the American Environmental Tradition. New York: Brazillier. 1972. 180pp.

Albert Fein (editor). Landscape into Cityscape: Frederick Law Olmsted's Plans for a Greater New York City. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 1968. 490pp.

Melvin Kalfus. Frederick Law Olmsted: The Passion of a Public Artist. New York University Press. 1990. 432pp.

Justin Martin. Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press. 2011. 461pp.

Broadus Mitchell. Frederick Law Olmsted: Critic of the Old South. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. 1924. 158pp.

Laura Wood Roper. A Biography of Frederick Law Olmsted. Baltimore & London: John Hopkins University Press. 1973. 555pp.

Witold Rybczynski. A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century. Old Tappan, NJ: Scribner's. 1999.

Elizabeth Stevenson. Park Maker: A Life of Frederick Law Olmsted. New York: Macmillan. 1977. 484pp.

Dana F. White. Olmsted South: Old South Critic / New South Planner. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. 1979. 259pp.

Cynthia Zaitzevsky. Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston Park System. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1982. 262pp.

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7. Encyclopedia of American Biography (p.842)

8. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.1103)

9. Webster's American Biographies (p.779)

10. American Authors 1600-1900 (p.581)

11. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.545)

12. Concise Dictionary of American Biography (p.748)

13. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.65)

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