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Peggy (given Name)
Peggy is a female first name (often curtailed to "Peg") derived from Meggy, a diminutive version of the name Margaret (name), Margaret. People Writers * Peggy Adam, French comic book artist and illustrator * Peggy Adler (born 1942), American writer * Peggy Anderson (1938–2016), American author and journalist * Peggy Carr, Vincentian poet * Peggy Pond Church (1903–1986), American writer * Peggy Dennis, American Russian journalist, author and Communist activist * Peggy Dern, American novelist * Peggy Dunstan (1920–2010), New Zealand poet and writer * Peggy Fortnum (1919–2016), English illustrator * Peggy Frew (born 1976), Australian author * Peggy Goodin (1923–1983), American novelist * Peggy Hull (1889–1967), American journalist * Peggy Bennette Hume, British playwright and children’s author * Peggy Kornegger, American writer * Peggy McIntosh (born 1934), American writer and activist * Peggy Moreland, American novelist * Peggy Noonan (born 1950), American author and com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Margaret (name)
Margaret is a feminine given name, which means "pearl". It is of Latin origin, via Ancient Greek and ultimately from Old Iranian. It has been an English name since the 11th century, and remained popular throughout the Middle Ages. It became less popular between the 16th and 18th century, but became more common again after this period, becoming the second-most popular female name in the United States in 1903. Since this time, it has become less common, but was still the ninth-most common name for women of all ages in the United States as of the 1990 census. Margaret has many diminutive forms in many languages, including Daisy, Greta, Gretchen, Maggie, Madge, Maisie, Marge, Margie, Margo, Margot, Marnie, Meg, Megan, Molly, Peggy, and Rita. Etymology Margaret is derived via French () and Latin () from (), via Persian ''murwārīd'', meaning "pearl". Margarita (given name) traces the etymology further as مروارید, ''morvārīd'' in modern Persian, derived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Peggy McIntosh
Peggy McIntosh (born November 7, 1934) is an American feminism, feminist, anti-racism activist, speaker, and senior research scientist of the Wellesley Centers for Women. She is the founder of the National SEED Project on Inclusive Curriculum (Seeking Educational equity, Educational Equity and Diversity). She and Emily Style co-directed SEED for its first twenty-five years. She has written on curricular revision, feelings of fraudulence, hierarchies in education and society, and professional development of teachers. In 1988, she published the article "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies". This analysis, and its shorter version, "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" (1989), pioneered putting the dimension of privilege into discussions of power, gender, race, class and sexuality in the United States. Both papers rely on personal examples of unearned advantage that McIntosh says she ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Peggy Fletcher Stack
Peggy Fletcher Stack is an American journalist, editor, and author. Stack has been the lead religion writer for '' The Salt Lake Tribune'' since 1991. She and five other journalists at the '' Salt Lake Tribune'' won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. She won the Cornell Award for Excellence in Religion Reporting—Mid-sized Newspapers from the Religious News Association in 2004, 2012, 2017, 2018, and 2022. In 1975 Stack helped found ''Sunstone'', an independent magazine of Mormon studies, and steered it for its first eleven years. She was the editor of '' Hastings Center Report'' from 1986 until 1991, when she was hired to start the "Faith" column in the '' Salt Lake Tribune''. Stack is an advisor on religion to the Public Broadcasting Service, and has written two books. Biography Peggy Fletcher was raised in New Jersey, daughter of physicist Robert Chipman Fletcher and Rosemary Bennett, one of five girls and three boys. She was raised as a member of the Church of Jesu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Peggy Sloane
Peggy Sloane (October 18, 1943 – May 11, 2009) was an American television soap opera script writer for more than 23 years, until 1999. She won two Daytime Emmy Awards and a Writers Guild of America Award for her work. Early life and education Margaret Merrill "Peggy" Sloane was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Joseph Curtis Sloane Jr. and Marjorie Merrill Sloane. Her father was an art historian and college professor. She graduated from Chapel Hill High School in North Carolina in 1961, and in 1965 graduated from Wellesley College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, was a Durant Scholar, and won the Judith Brown Cook Prize in English. Career Sloane was a writer or co-writer on several television programs, especially soap operas, including ''Hocus Focus (TV series)'' (1979-1980), ''Capitol'' (1982–1987), ''All My Children'' (1987–1989, 1997–1998)'', Another World'' (1990–1992, head writer 1992–1994)'','' ''Guiding Light'' (1994–1995)'','' ''On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Peggy Shaw
Peggy Shaw (born July 27, 1944) is an American actor, writer, and producer living in New York City. She is a founding member of the Split Britches and WOW Cafe Theatre, and is a recipient of several Obie Awards, including two for Best Actress for her performances in ''Dress Suits to Hire'' in 1988 and ''Menopausal Gentleman'' in 1999. Early life and education Born Margaret A. Shaw in Belmont, Massachusetts, she was raised in a working class Irish Congregationalist family with six siblings. When she was thirteen, she was a missionary in Costa Rica. Shaw moved to New York in 1967. She had a child and was a social worker for the New York City Agency for Child Development. In 1967, Shaw earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Printmaking at the Massachusetts College of Art. Career At the age of 31 after seeing Hot Peaches (a theater group in New York that consisted mostly of drag queens) perform in Sheridan Square, Shaw became involved with the company. Shaw began by pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Peggy Rathmann
Margaret Crosby "Peggy" Rathmann (born March 4, 1953) is an American illustrator and writer of children's picture books. Rathmann was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and graduated from the University of Minnesota. She studied commercial art, fine art, and children's book creation in Chicago, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles. Her first book, "''Ruby the Copycat'', earned Rathmann the Most Promising New Author distinction in ''Publishers Weeklys 1991 annual Cuffie Awards." That book was followed by her illustrations of Barbara Bottner's ''Bootsie Barker Bites'' and by the self-illustrated ''Good Night, Gorilla''. Her book '' Officer Buckle and Gloria'' (1995) won the annual Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration. Since then she has written two more: ''Ten Minutes till Bedtime'' and ''The Day The Babies Crawled Away'', which made the Horn Book Fanfare List of best books of 2003. Rathmann and her husband, John Wick, were featured in a New York Times article about regenerative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Peggy Pettitt
Peggy Pettitt (born February 8, 1950) is an American actress, dancer, teacher, playwright, and storyteller. Pettitt is best known for her role as Billie Jean in the 1972 family–drama film ''Black Girl'', starring alongside Brock Peters and Claudia McNeil. Pettitt is a native of St. Louis, Missouri. Playwright and storyteller The centerpiece of Pettitt's theater career is a unique style of solo performance rooted in African-American storytelling. She developed this form to portray a spectrum of characters. Related by blood and circumstance, these characters shed light on the multifaceted history of African American men and women. And they tell "stories addressing important issues of our time."Mark Russell, ed., ''Out of Character: Rants, Raves, and Monologues from Today's Top Performance Artists'', New York: Bantam, 1997, p. 304. In collaboration with director Remy Tissier, she has created over 10 original full-length plays. These examine issues of domestic violence, sexual ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Peggy Peterman
Peggy may refer to: People * Peggy (given name), people with the given name or nickname Arts and entertainment * Peggy (musical), ''Peggy'' (musical), a 1911 musical comedy by Stuart and Bovill * Peggy (album), ''Peggy'' (album), a 1977 Peggy Lee album * Peggy (1916 film), ''Peggy'' (1916 film), a silent comedy * Peggy (1950 film), ''Peggy'' (1950 film), a comedy * Peggy (novel), ''Peggy'' (novel), a 1970 historical novel by Lois Duncan * the peggies, a Japanese all-female band * JPEGMafia, an American rapper, singer, and record producer * Peggy (song), "Peggy" (song), a 2024 song by English rapper Ceechynaa * "Peggy", a 2012 song by Dala from their album ''Best Day'' * "Peggy", a 2014 song by Elastinen Nautical vessels * , a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918 * Peggy (1793 ship), ''Peggy'' (1793 ship) * ''Peggy'', a French ship in the 1801 United States Supreme Court case ''United States v. Schooner Peggy'' * Peggy of Castletown, ''Peggy'' of Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Peggy Payne
Peggy Payne (born 1949) is a writer, journalist and consultant to writers. She has written four books and her articles, reviews and essays have appeared in ''The New York Times'', ''Cosmopolitan'', ''The Washington Post'', the ''Los Angeles Times,'' and ''Chicago Tribune'', among others. Her work deals primarily with religion and spirituality. Biography Peggy Payne writes novels that focus on the intersection of sex and spirituality. Her most recent, Cobalt Blue (2013) has been published in 5 countries and won a 2014 IPPY for Visionary Fiction. It is probably the only novel to be a book of the month on a Playboy Radio Network program and in the top 100 spiritual books for Kindle. Payne was born in 1949 in Wilmington, North Carolina. She graduated from Duke University in 1970 and worked for The Raleigh Times for two years before beginning her freelance career, which lasted over three decades. She was awarded the Sherwood Anderson Award for 2003, given in memory of Sherwood A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Peggy Parnass
Peggy may refer to: People * Peggy (given name), people with the given name or nickname Arts and entertainment * Peggy (musical), ''Peggy'' (musical), a 1911 musical comedy by Stuart and Bovill * Peggy (album), ''Peggy'' (album), a 1977 Peggy Lee album * Peggy (1916 film), ''Peggy'' (1916 film), a silent comedy * Peggy (1950 film), ''Peggy'' (1950 film), a comedy * Peggy (novel), ''Peggy'' (novel), a 1970 historical novel by Lois Duncan * the peggies, a Japanese all-female band * JPEGMafia, an American rapper, singer, and record producer * Peggy (song), "Peggy" (song), a 2024 song by English rapper Ceechynaa * "Peggy", a 2012 song by Dala from their album ''Best Day'' * "Peggy", a 2014 song by Elastinen Nautical vessels * , a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918 * Peggy (1793 ship), ''Peggy'' (1793 ship) * ''Peggy'', a French ship in the 1801 United States Supreme Court case ''United States v. Schooner Peggy'' * Peggy of Castletown, ''Peggy'' of Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |