Eleanor Perenyi
Eleanor Perenyi (January 4, 1918 – May 3, 2009)[1] was a gardener and author on gardening. She wrote Green Thoughts, a collection of essays based on her own experiences as a gardener. The book drew on her work on her husband’s castle (described in her 1946 publication More Was Lost). Green Thoughts was reviewed by Brooke Astor in The New York Times.[2]
Eleanor Perenyi was the daughter of Grace Zaring Stone, who wrote her anti-Nazi novel "Escape" under the pseudonym Ethel Vance in order not to jeopardize the safety of her daughter, who lived at the time in Europe with her Hungarian baron husband.
Perenyi was given an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1982.[3]
References
- ↑ Fox, Margalit (May 6, 2009). "Eleanor Perenyi, Writer and Gardener, Dies at 91". The New York Times. Retrieved May 7, 2009.
- ↑ Astor, Brooke (October 11, 1981). "The Trouble With Petunias". The New York Times. Retrieved May 7, 2009.
- ↑ "Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award recipients". American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Retrieved May 7, 2009.
Further reading
- Perényi, Eleanor Spencer Stone (1981). Green thoughts: a writer in the garden. Random House. ISBN 978-0-394-50375-2.
- Perenyi, Eleanor (2002). More Was Lost. Helen Marx Books. ISBN 9781885586544.
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