Eleanor Perenyi

Eleanor Perenyi was for many years the managing editor of "Mademoiselle," an editor at "Harper's Bazaar," and a contributor to "The Atlantic Monthly," "Harper's," and "Esquire" magazines. She is the author of a biography of Franz Liszt, which was nominated for a National Book Award, and "More Was Lost," a memoir of her marriage to a Hungarian baron. She lives on the Connecticut coast. Michael Pollan is the author of the "New York Times" bestseller "The Botany of Desire" and "Second Nature,"...See more

Eleanor Perenyi was for many years the managing editor of "Mademoiselle," an editor at "Harper's Bazaar," and a contributor to "The Atlantic Monthly," "Harper's," and "Esquire" magazines. She is the author of a biography of Franz Liszt, which was nominated for a National Book Award, and "More Was Lost," a memoir of her marriage to a Hungarian baron. She lives on the Connecticut coast. Michael Pollan is the author of the "New York Times" bestseller "The Botany of Desire" and "Second Nature," named one of the best gardening books of the twentieth century by the American Horticultural Society. He is a contributing editor to "Harper's" magazine and a contributing writer at "The New York Times Magazine." Pollan chose the books for the Modern Library Gardening series because, as he writes, "these writers are some of the great talkers in the rich, provocative, and frequently uproarious conversation that, metaphorically at least, has been taking place over the back fence of our gardens at least since the time of Pliny." See less