A Clearing in the Distance
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Template:Short description Template:Italic title Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox book A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and North America in the Nineteenth Century is a biography of 19th-century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, published in 1999, by Canadian architect, professor and writer Witold Rybczynski. Andrew Delbanco reviewed it for The New York Review of Books.<ref>"Sunday in the Park with Fred", January 20, 2000.</ref> Suzannah Lessard reviewed it for The New York Times.<ref>"Scape Artist", June 13, 1999.</ref>
It was short-listed for the Charles Taylor Prize in 2000.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>