Peggy Anderson (1938-2016) was an American author and journalist, best known for her 1979 work Nurse. Anderson graduated from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, and then joined the Peace Corps. While with the Peace Corps, she taught English for two years in the early 1960s in Togo. After her time in the Peace Corps, she worked as a reporter at The Washington Monthly and The Philadelphia Inquirer (from 1969-1973). She wrote three well-received books: The Daughters (1972), about the Daughters of the American Revolution; Nurse (1979); and Children's Hospital (1985).
Discipline:
Literature
Peggy Anderson
Discipline:
Literature
Region: Philadelphia, PA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1977, 1978, 1985
Studios
Phi Beta
Peggy Anderson worked in the Phi Beta studio.
Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…