Peggy Lamson (1912-1996) was an essayist, playwright, and biographer. Her career as a writer included the biographies Roger Baldwin, a Portrait (1976) and Speaking of Galbraith (1991), which is about founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, and economist, John Kenneth Galbraith. Lamson’s husband, Roy, was a professor of literature, and thus, she spent much of her adult life on college campuses. While working at Williams College, she began writing teleplays and completed The Charm Circle, a novel based loosely on fraternity life there.
Her other books include The Glorious Failure: Black Congressman Robert Brown Elliott and the Reconstruction in South Carolina; Few Are Chosen: American Women in Public Life Today, an examination of 10 women holding public office in 1968 in the early days of the women's movement; and In the Vanguard, a collection of profiles of women in public office published 10 years later. Lamson also frequently contributed book reviews and essays to the Boston Globe, as well as a series on baseball for the sports pages that reflected her avid interest in the game.
