Architectural historian and author Anne Walker holds a master’s degree in historic preservation from Columbia University and received her bachelor’s degree from Middlebury College. In 2000, she joined Peter Pennoyer Architects and has since collaborated with Pennoyer on five books on early twentieth-century American architects. She is the author of Peter Pennoyer Architects: Apartments, Townhouses, Country Houses and Rowdy Meadow: House, Land, Art, and the co-author of Life at the Top: New York’s Exceptional Apartment Buildings with Kirk Henckels and The Finest Rooms in America with Thomas Jayne. Walker served as an adjunct professor at New York University for ten years and has appeared as a commentator in National Geographic’s television series American Mansion.