Amy Greenfield A Perfect Red Summary

The author of A Perfect Red, Amy Butler Greenfield, is a writer and historian from Cotswolds, England. She grew up in New York and attended Williams College where she earned a degree in history. As a Marshall Scholar at Oxford, Greenfield studied Renaissance Europe, imperial Spain, and colonial Latin America alongside Sir John Elliot, a historian well-known for his works on the history of Spain and the Spanish Empire. While researching for her Master’s thesis on the introduction of chocolate in Europe, she noticed the constant mention of “grana” which sparked her curiosity and eventually led her to write A Perfect Red. When Greenfield returned to the United States and began studying for a Ph.D. in history at the University of Wisconsin, she