Eleanor Perenyi

Eleanor Perényi (later Perenyi, January 4, 1918 – May 3, 2009)[1] was a gardener and author. She wrote several books including Green Thoughts, a collection of essays based on her own gardening experiences.

Works

Green Thoughts. A Writer in the Garden drew on her work on her husband's rural estate in Vynohradiv (at that time Nagyszőlős, Hungary), which she described in her 1946 book More Was Lost. She also wrote the Civil War novel The Bright Sword (1955) and a study of Franz Liszt.

Green Thoughts was reviewed by Brooke Astor in The New York Times.[2]

Background

Eleanor Perenyi was the daughter of U. S. Navy officer, Ellis S. Stone and 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 that time in Europe with her Hungarian husband, Baron Zsigmond Perényi.[3]

Award

Perenyi was given an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1982.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Fox, Margalit (May 6, 2009). "Eleanor Perenyi, Writer and Gardener, Dies at 91". The New York Times. Retrieved May 7, 2009.
  2. ↑ Astor, Brooke (October 11, 1981). "The Trouble With Petunias". The New York Times. Retrieved May 7, 2009.
  3. ↑ Publisher's biography Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  4. ↑ "Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award recipients". American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Archived from the original on October 13, 2008. 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.
  • Perenyi, Eleanor (1974). Liszt: the artist as romantic hero. Little, Brown. ISBN 9780316699105.
  • Perenyi, Eleanor (1955). The Bright Sword. Rinehart & Co. OCLC 1662091.


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