Publishing once gave us a well-regarded history of the pencil (Henry Petroski, 1990). There has been a good book devoted to the tulip (Anna Pavord, 1999). Even the colour mauve has been given its own ...

Simon Garfield talked about his book [Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World], published by W.W. Norton. The book is the account of how chemist William Perkin accidentally ...

Lisa talks with author Simon Garfield about the discovery in the 1880s of the color Mauve (mohv). A young English chemist named William Perkin accidentally discovered the vibrant color that soon ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Simon Garfield is an Author with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2001 Speech. Simon Garfield talked about his book Mauve: How One Man ...