Diana Ketcham

Selected Articles on Writers

Articles on Henry Roth, Tom Stoppard, M. F. K. Fisher, E. M. Forster, Jessica Mitford, Tom Wolfe, Thomas Jefferson and others. See list of Articles.

Selected Works

Latest Work

Sea Ranch, California’s Modernist Utopia, Gets an Update

New York Times, June 2019:

Demographic shifts. Climate change. The internet. "Sea Ranch is changing, like our society," said the architect Mary Griffin. "We simply can't build the way we did even 20 years ago."

On Architecture

The de Young in the 21st Century: A Museum by Herzog & de Meuron Thames & Hudson 2005

The design process of architects Herzog and de Meuron for their award winning de Young Museum. “A fine book about design” --Robert Campbell, Boston Globe

On Historic Gardens

Le Désert de Retz: A Late Eighteenth Century French Folly Garden, the Artful Landscape of Monsieur de Monville. With photographs by Michael Kenna MIT Press 1994

A history of this rediscovered masterpiece of French 18th century architecture and landscape art.

The Changing Garden: Four Centuries of European and American Art (contributor) University of California Press 2003

“A richly illustrated history of the garden as shaped and experienced by artists.” --New York Times Book Review

On Writers

Selected Articles on Writers

Articles on Henry Roth, Tom Stoppard, M. F. K. Fisher, E. M. Forster, Jessica Mitford, Tom Wolfe, Thomas Jefferson, and others.

At Arion Press

Work Published at Arion Press

Introductory essays to work by Leonard Michaels, Tom Stoppard, Brillat Savarin, and Edith Wharton.

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