She wrote several books including Green Thoughts, a collection of essays based on her own gardening experiences.

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] 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 Nagyszőlős, Hungary).

Her other books include the Civil War novel The Bright Sword (1955) and a study of Franz Liszt.

[3] More Was Lost was reprinted by New York Review of Books Press in 2016 with an introduction by the poet J.D.