![]() ![]() “David Taylor’s book Ginseng, the Divine Root… is one of the most fascinating garden-oriented books I’ve read.” –London Free Press ![]() “Taylor has a gift for capturing the colorful characters along his journey… Ginseng, the Divine Root chronicles… much about this plant and even more about human nature.” –Orion “The tale of ginseng is, like the gnarled root… complex, mysterious, and alluring… Taylor… penetrates the secretive industry that surrounds it… from back-holler diggers in Kentucky to high-stakes importers in China.” –Utne magazine “An engaging cultural history.” –The Brooklyn Eagle He teaches at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Washington, DC. His fiction collection Success: Stories won the Washington Writers’ Publishing House fiction prize and was a finalist in the Library of Virginia Literary Awards. ![]() He has written and co-produced award-winning documentary films including Soul of a People: Writing America’s Story, nominated for a Writer’s Guild of America Award. His nonfiction appears in Smithsonian, The Washington Post, Oxford American and elsewhere. Taylor is the author of six books, including Cork Wars: Intrigue and Industry in World War II. ![]()
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