Sunday, May 3, 2026
2 pm
Free for Members and Non-Members
This program takes place at the Oxford Community Center in Oxford.
Author and biologist David George Haskell presents his new book, How Flowers Made Our World: The Story of Nature's Revolutionaries, an exploration of the powerful role flowers have played in shaping life on Earth.
Drawing on current scientific research and close observation of both familiar and lesser-known plants, Haskell reveals how flowers helped create the world we know today.
This program is presented by Adkins Arboretum, Shore Lit, and the Oxford Community Center.
Advance registration is required.
Meet the Author
David George Haskell is a biologist acclaimed for his lyrical explorations of the living world. His books have twice been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, in 2012 for The Forest Unseen and in 2022 for Sounds Wild and Broken. His 2017 book, The Songs of Trees, won the John Burroughs Medal.
Other literary honors include a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a two-time finalist for the PEN / E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and winner of the Acoustical Society of America’s Science Communication Award, the National Academies’ Best Book Award, the Iris Book Award, the Reed Environmental Writing Award, and the National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature.
He is a fellow of the Linnean Society of London, a Guggenheim fellow, and adjunct professor of environmental sciences at Emory University. He was previously William R. Kenan Jr. Professor at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. Haskell lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
