Eleanor perenyi biography

Eleanor Spencer Stone Perényi (January 4, 1918 – May 3, 2009) was a gardener and author.
Eleanor Spencer Stone Perényi was a gardener and author.
Eleanor Perényi was an American writer, editor, and amateur gardener best known for Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden (1981), a collection of gardening.

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Perenyi, Eleanor (Spencer Stone) 1918-

PERSONAL: Born January 4, 1918, in WA; daughter of Ellis S. and Grace (Zaring) Stone; married F. Sigmond Perenyi, September 23, 1937 (divorced); children: Peter. Education: Attended Phillips Gallery of Art School, 1936.

ADDRESSES: Home—53 Main St., Stonington, CT 06378.

CAREER: Harper's Bazaar,New York, NY, decoration editor, 1947-50, copy editor, 1955-57, feature and travel editor, 1956-58; Living for Young Homemakers, New York, NY, copy editor, 1951; Charm, New York, NY, feature editor, 1958-59, managing editor, 1959; Mademoiselle, New York, NY, managing editor, 1959-62; writer.

AWARDS, HONORS: National Book Award nomination, 1974, for Liszt: The Artist As Romantic Hero; American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters award for literature, 1982.

WRITINGS:

More Was Lost (memoir), Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1946, reprinted, Helen Marx Books, 2001.

The Bright Sword (novel), Rinehart (New York, NY), 1955.

Liszt: The Artist As Romantic Hero, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1974, Weidenfeld and Nicolson (London,

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Eleanor Perenyi

American gardener and essayist

Eleanor Perenyi

Born	Eleanor Spencer Stone (1918-01-04)January 4, 1918
Died	May 3, 2009(2009-05-03) (aged 91) Stonington
Occupation	Author

Eleanor Spencer Stone Perényi (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.

Biography

Eleanor Perenyi was the daughter of a US Navy officer, Ellis S. Stone and Grace Zaring Stone. Grace Zaring Stone wrote her anti-Nazi novel Escape under the pseudonym Ethel Vance, for fear of jeopardizing the safety of her daughter, who was then living with her husband, the son of the Hungarian noble Baron Zsigmond Perényi, in pro-Fascist Hungary, then to be an ally of the Axis powers during World War II.^[2]

Works

Perenyi is best known as the author of Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden, which drew on her work on her husband's rural estate near the present-day town of Vynohradiv, Ukraine (the former Nag

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In 1937, the nineteen-year-old Eleanor Stone, daughter of a career naval officer and a novelist, was invited to a dinner party at the American legation in Budapest. There she met an Oxford-educated, communist-sympathizing Hungarian nobleman, Baron Zsigmon (Zsiga) Perényi. He called on her the next day and they spent the rest of her week in Budapest together. On her last evening, they went out to dinner. Here’s how the now Eleanor Perényi would describe it a decade later in her wonderful memoir More Was Lost:

We sat and drank Tokay for a long time. I felt surprisingly miserable.
At last he said, “It’s a pity we are both so poor.”
“Why do you say that?”
“Because otherwise we could perhaps marry.”
I looked into my wineglass.
“Yes, we could,”
There was another pause which seemed to me interminable. Then he said, “Do you think you could marry me anyway?”
“I think I could decidedly.”
So we were engaged.

This could come from a Lubitsch movie, and indeed both Eleanor and Zsiga have qualities recognizable from the pictures of that time—her pluck, his debonair de