Penelope Rowlands

Penelope Rowlands is the author of A Dash of Daring: Carmel Snow and Her Life in Fashion, Art and Letters; Paris Was Ours; and other books.

Have Trowel, Will Travel

A new biography of 20th-century America’s greatest landscape architect

By Penelope Rowlands | Monday December 19, 2022

The Story of a Stare Down

How two antagonists from Tudor England ended up facing each other on Fifth Avenue

By Penelope Rowlands | Thursday April 7, 2022

My Fax Friends

Preserving a slipping-away past

By Penelope Rowlands | Saturday December 19, 2020
Chilean flag

Soundtrack of a Revolution

Seeing and hearing a protest explode on the streets of Santiago

By Penelope Rowlands | Tuesday December 3, 2019
Two etchings face one another: on the left, a man in 18th-century dress, and on the right, his daughter in same

Aaron Burr in Exile

Surviving against all odds, his journal tells the story of one of the most maligned figures in American history

By Penelope Rowlands | Monday June 3, 2019

Have Trowel, Will Travel

By Penelope Rowlands | Monday December 19, 2022

The Story of a Stare Down

By Penelope Rowlands | Thursday April 7, 2022

My Fax Friends

By Penelope Rowlands | Saturday December 19, 2020
Chilean flag

Soundtrack of a Revolution

By Penelope Rowlands | Tuesday December 3, 2019
Two etchings face one another: on the left, a man in 18th-century dress, and on the right, his daughter in same

Aaron Burr in Exile

By Penelope Rowlands | Monday June 3, 2019

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