Krisztián Nyáry taught the history of poetry at the University of Pécs for a few years, then left the department in the mid-1990s, and has since been working as a communications consultant. He ran a PR agency and a public opinion research institute, he was the communications director of a state organization, but his hobby remained the history of literature. At the beginning of 2012, he started publishing to his friends on Facebook his pictorial etudes about the love lives of Hungarian writers and artists, with which he gained great popularity in a few months. The posts intended for friends turned into a book entitled This is how they loved each other, and the volume became one of the biggest book successes of the past year, which won the XX. The Buda Prize of the Budapest International Book Festival and the Fitz József Book Prize of the Association of Hungarian Librarians. The second book contains the exciting, but few-known relationship stories of another 40 Hungarian writers and poets. The author's goal this time too is to make you want to read the works with the love stories told. Some true stories about Hungarian writers and poets that few people know. In the second volume of How They Loved Them, the author tells 40 stories from Csokonai to István Vas, from Déryne to Tibor Déry about muses, betrayed lovers, eternal loyalty and the many faces of love.