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

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 03, 2019

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 07, 2022

My Fax Friends

Preserving a slipping-away past

by Penelope Rowlands | Saturday, December 19, 2020

Soundtrack of a Revolution

Seeing and hearing a protest explode on the streets of Santiago

by Penelope Rowlands | Tuesday, December 03, 2019