Book EVENTS

”Victoria Johnson’s dedication to studying the extraordinary life and times of Dr. David Hosack is easy to see--and feel--from the very beginning of her lecture. Through her passionate narrative and beautiful imagery, Johnson masterfully gives life to a physician, botanist and educator of great significance to the history of our emerging nation, whose contributions might otherwise have been forgotten. Her presentation is one of the most interesting and engaging I have ever attended.” 

—Michael J. Balick, Ph.D., The New York Botanical Garden

PAST EVENTS: 2018 

June 6     THE New York Public Library. New York, NY, Cullman Center for Scholars & Writers. Interview by MAYA JASANOFF, Author of Liberty's Exiles and the Dawn Watch. 

June 22   The New York Botanical Garden. New York, NY. Talk co-presented with The New York Academy of Medicine. 

June 30   Politics and Prose Bookstore. Washington, D.C. 

JULY 9      MOUNTAIN GARDEN CLUB. HIGHLANDS, NC. 

JULY 12    Kansas City Public library. kansas City, MO.

July 19    Piedmont Physic Garden. union, Sc.

July 24    north Carolina Arboretum. asheville, nc.

Sept 13    Westport Library & Westport Garden Club. Westport, CT.

Sept 15   united States Botanic Garden. Washington, DC.

oct 5     John Carter Brown library. brown university, providence, ri.

oct 9    The Heberden Society, Weill Cornell Medicine. New York Academy of Medicine. New York, NY.

Oct 16    Lehman Center for American history, Columbia University. New York, NY. 

Oct 18    andrew Carnegie Distinguished Lecture FOR The new York botanical Garden. SPECIAL LOCATION: CHristie's, 20 Rockefeller plaza. New York, NY.

Oct 21    frelinghuysen Arboretum. Morris Township, nj.

Oct 27   Connecticut Botanical Society. Rockfall, CT.

Nov 1    University of Delaware Botanic Gardens. Newark, De. 

Nov 2    Botanic Garden of smith College. northampton, ma.

Nov 10  Portland Art Museum. Pop-up event for the portland book festival. Portland, OR.

Nov 10 An evening with the national Book awards. PoRTLAND BOOK FESTIVAL. Portland, OR.

Nov 13   National Book Awards Reading. The New School. New York, NY.

Nov 16  An Evening with the National Book Awards winners and Finalists. Miami Book Fair. Miami, Fl.

Dec 3    Columbia University irving Medical Center. Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library. New York, ny.

Dec 5    Garden Club of America. New York, NY. 

Dec 10  Boston Junior League Garden Club. Boston, MA.

Dec 11  New England Historic Genealogical Society. Boston, MA.

PAST EVENTS: 2019 

Jan 9 Massachusetts Historical Society. Boston, MA.

Jan 15 Charleston Library Society. Charleston, SC.

Jan 17  Miami Beach Botanical Garden. Miami, FL.

Jan 18  Books & Books. COral Gables, Fl.

Jan 24  Lenoir-Rhyne University. Asheville, NC. joint event with #1 New York Times Bestselling novelist (& my sister!) Elizabeth kostova.

Jan 30  Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Ambler, PA.

Feb 7   HUDSON LIBRARY and Historical Society. Hudson, Oh.

Feb 12 Linnaean Society of New York. New York, NY.

Feb 15  Amherst College. Amherst, MA.

Feb 17 Tower Hill Botanic Garden. Boylston, MA.

Feb 25 PEN AMERICA WINTER 2019 AUTHORS’ EVENING WITH VICTORIA JOHNSON. New York, NY.

Feb 27  Joint event with Elizabeth barlow Rogers, author of Saving Central Park (Knopf 2018). SHakespeare & co. Bookstore, New York, NY.

Feb 28 Bartlett Arboretum & Gardens. Stamford, CT.

Mar 1 cosmos club. washington, dc.

Mar 7 Elizabeth park Conservancy. west hartford, ct.

Mar 16 Hardy Plant Society, Mid-Atlantic Group. Media, PA. 

April 6 Queens Botanical Garden. New York, NY.

April 9 The Garden Club of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Pa.

April 10 The Atlanta history center. Atlanta, GA.

April 13 New-York Historical Society. New York, NY.

April 18 jay heritage Center. Rye, NY.

April 28 The grange (Alexander Hamilton’s house). New York, NY.

May 3 John Dwyer public Lecture. presented by Saint Louis University. talk venue: Missouri Botanical Garden. St. Louis, MO.

May 14 Stanford University’s Center on PHilanthropy and Civil Society. Co-Sponsored by Filoli. Palo Alto, CA.

may 15  uC Botanical Garden at berkeley. Berkeley, Ca.

May 22 Redlands Forum, ESRI. Redlands, CA.

may 23  HuntingTon library. Pasadena, Ca.

may 30  American Philosophical Society. Philadelphia, PA.

june 6 Gilder Lehrman institute. New York, NY.

june 12 Yale Club of New York City. New York, NY.

June 18 ROyal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Edinburgh, Scotland.

June 20 Linnean Society. London, England.

June 29 American museum & gardens. bath, England.

July 2  Worshipful society of apothecaries. London, England.

July 4  Curtis Museum. Alton, England.

July 9  McLean and eakin bookstore. Petoskey, MI.

july 11 Keynote speech, Annual Commemoration of the Hamilton-Burr duel, Weehawken, NJ. Weehawken, NJ. 

July 22 The Mount, Edith Wharton’s home. Lenox, MA.

July 23 The Mount, Edith Wharton’s home. Lenox, MA.

Aug 5 Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club. Boothbay, ME.

Aug 6 Book-signing, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. Boothbay, ME.

Aug 9 Southampton garden club. Southampton, NY.

Aug 10 authors night 2019 with the east hampton library. east hampton, NY.

Aug 15 Atlanta Botanical Garden. atlanta, GA.

Aug 21 Winterthur museum, garden and library. winterthur, DE.

Sept 1 mountain top arboretum. Tannersville, Ny.

Sept 12 Fraunces Tavern Museum. New York, NY.

Sept 20 The New York Botanical Garden. keynote address, Second annual ecoflora conference: The Historical Flora of New York CIty. New York, NY.

Sept 22 The National Book Foundation Presents: An Afternoon with the National Book Awards (part of the Brooklyn book Festival). Brooklyn, NY.

Sept 26 National Society of Colonial Dames. New York, NY

Oct 3-4 national Book award events at Concordia college. Moorhead, MN.

Oct 6 THE ELGIN. New York, NY.

Oct 10 Burning tree country Club. Greenwich, CT.

NOV 20 Medical University of South Carolina. Charleston, SC.

Nov 21 Health Advocates for Older People. New York, NY.

Dec 17  Hortus club of New York. National Arts Club.

PAST EVENTS: 2020

Jan 6 garden club of new haven. new haven, ct.

Jan 14 Los Altos Forum. los altos, CA.

Jan 27 City gardens club of new York. new York, NY.

Feb 4 GarDen Club of Hartford. Hartford, CT.

Feb 12 Saint Andrew’s Society of New York. New York, NY.

Feb 19 GarDen Club of houston. Houston, tx.

Mar 2 MapleWood public library, presented by the Maplewood GarDen Club. Maplewood, nj.

Mar 5 harvard Club of New York. with Dr. Michael Balick of The New York Botanical Garden. New York, NY.

apr 22 Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. Charlottesville, VA.

Aug 2 Context Conversations: online event.

Sept 10 Allen and Valerie Hyman History of Anesthesia and Medicine Lecture, Columbia University.

Sept 12 United States Botanic Garden. Washington, DC.

Sept 19-20 heronswood/bellevue botanical garden joint symposium: “Conversations with Eden.” bellevue, WA.

Oct 1 THREE HARBORS GARDEN CLUB. Huntington, NY.

Oct 6 Garden Club of Palo Alto. Palo Alto, CA.

Oct 6 Marin Art and Garden Center. Ross, CA

Oct 22 Green-Wood Cemetery Brooklyn, NY.

Nov 12 Sulgrave Club. Washington, DC.

NOV 17 ULSTER GARDEN CLUB. Kingston, NY.

PAST EVENTS: 2021

Jan 11 RusticuS Garden Club. BedFord, NY.

Jan 11 Green Spring Valley Garden Club. Maryland.

Jan 16 WoodLea Garden Club. Berwyn, PA.

Feb 16 Irvington Garden Club. Irvington, NY.

April 13 Chestnut Hill Garden Club. Chestnut Hill, MA.

June 2 Mather Homestead. Darien, CT.

Sept 2 COASTAL GEORGIA HISToRICAL SOCIETy. ST. SimonS Island, GA.