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Silber, Terry (1940 - 2003)
Genre: Non-Fiction
Terry Silber was born on June 12, 1940 in Lewiston, Maine and lived for many years on Hedgehog Hill Farm in Sumner, Maine.
A graduate of the University of New Hampshire, Silber worked as art director for The Atlantic Monthly magazine during the 1970's, leaving that position and city life to live full-time in Sumner in 1978.
She wrote about her experience at Hedgehog Hill Farm in A Small Farm In Maine (1988/1992) and collaborated on two other books with her husband Mark, a medical anthropologist and documentary photographer, Growing Herbs and Vegetables from Seed to Harvest (1999) and The Complete Book of Everlastings: Growing, Drying, and Designing with Dried Flowers (1988/1992).
Terry Silber died on July 6, 2003 and her obituary appeared in the Boston Globe. The autumn 1998 issue of People, Places and Plants contains a feature article on the Silbers.
Selected Bibliography
- A Small Farm In Maine (1988)
- The Complete Book of Everlastings: Growing, Drying, and Designing with Dried Flowers (1988/1992)
- Growing Herbs and Vegetables from Seed to Harvest (1999)
