Prisant was a 51-year-old antiques dealer with no professional experience writing when she wrote to the autocratic editor of the British magazine The World of Interiors, asking for a job. There wasn’t one open in New York, but the editor created one for her. “‘She told the truth, but always with subtlety and lashings of wit,’ Rupert Thomas, Ms. Hogg’s successor at the magazine, said by phone, ‘and managed to be clever and learned without taking herself — or her interviewees — too seriously.'” – The New York Times