Peggy owes her love of books to her grandfather who owned the largest private library in Egypt. She is an internationally recognized artist and author who lives and works in the U.S. and Switzerland. Several of her short stories have appeared in anthologies. Her novel "Of Julia and Men" appeared in the New York Times Book Review Magazine. Peggy designed the cover illustration, plus 26 interior images. In 2020 Peggy's life as an author and as an artist was featured on "Living Your Dreams" (Mara Brown) airing on Los Angeles T.V. During the same year, she won an award from The Writers Workshop in Asheville, N.C. for a 5000-word memoir, describing her life in Egypt in the 1940s and 1950s. Peggy's lengthier memoir, "The Girl from Cairo", which covers the years between 1940 to 1963, is available on Xlibris.com and Amazon.com.