Carol Prisant, Elegant Design Writer, Dies at 82 She was a 51-year old former antiques dealer with no experience as a writer when she wrote to the editor of The World of Interiors magazine about a job. She was hired. The design writer Carol Prisant in 2008. She was the author of several books, including a memoir of her life with dogs, “Dog House: A Love Story.”Credit...Michael Falco for The New York Times April 15, 2021, 7:07 p.m. ET Carol Prisant, an elegant design writer who was the New York editor of the idiosyncratic British magazine The World of Interiors, died on April 9 at a hospital in Manhattan. She was 82.