Vanessa Diffenbaugh

THIS THURSDAY, October 8, the National Writers Series will welcome New York Times bestselling author Vanessa Diffenbaugh, who wrote The Language of Flowers, a poignant novel about a foster care teen reaching adulthood and grappling with survival, young love, motherhood, and self-forgiveness.

James Gates Percival

The Language of Flowers 'The Language of Flowers' is an unpublished song from a poem by the American geologist and poet James Gates Percival, with music written by the English composer Edward Elgar when Edward Elgar was only fourteen years old.