| Thursday, July 14, 7 PM Amy Butler Greenfield’s grandfather and great-grandfather were dyers, and she has long been fascinated by the history of color, the sweep of empires, and the age of sail. Born in Philadelphia, she grew up in the Adirondack Mountains, where she spent countless hours exploring Fort Ticonderoga, Fort Crown Point, and other battlefield ruins from the eighteenth-century imperial wars. After graduating from Williams College, Amy studied Renaissance Europe, Latin America, and imperial Spain as a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University. She was writing a graduate thesis on the introduction of chocolate to Europe when she first stumbled across the history of cochineal, the legendary dye at the heart of A Perfect Red. She now lives with her husband near Boston. This is her first book. www.aperfectred.com |
