Sarah Margaret "Peggy" Hodges née Moore (July 26, 1911 – December 13, 2005) was an American writer of children's books, librarian, and storyteller.
Sarah Margaret Moore was born in Indianapolis, Indiana to Arthur Carlisle Moore and Annie Marie Moore. She enrolled at Tudor Hall, a college preparatory school for girls. A 1932 graduate of Vassar College, she arrived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband Fletcher Hodges Jr. when in 1937 he became curator at the Stephen Foster Memorial. She trained as a librarian at Carnegie Institute of Technology. Beginning in 1958 with One Little Drum, she wrote more than 40 published books. She also wrote the book John F. Kennedy Voice of Hope.
She was a professor of library science at the University of Pittsburgh, where she retired in 1976.
Hodges died of heart disease December 13, 2005, at her home in Oakmont, Pennsylvania. She suffered from Parkinson's disease.
She wrote her stories on a notepad or a typewriter. "I need good ideas, and they don't come out of machines", she once said.
Margaret Hodges
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American children's writer, librarian, and storyteller
| Born | 26 July 1911 |
| Died | 13 December 2005 |
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Margaret Hodges
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American children's writer, librarian, and storyteller
| Born | 26 July 1911 |
| Died | 13 December 2005 |
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Folklore, Juvenile literature, Fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction, Legends, Biography, Folklore, juvenile literature, Arthurian romances, History, Knights and knighthood, Adaptations, Fairy tales, Saints, Arthur, king, Christian saints, English Jataka stories, Folklore, great britain, Friendship, Greek Mythology, Horses, fiction, Jataka stories, Jataka stories, English, Magic, MythologyPlaces
England, Ireland, Japan, United States, Assisi, Bremen, China, Europe, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Middle West, SpainPeople
Arthur King, Anne Queen of Great Britain (1665-1714), Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), Francis of Assisi, Saint (1182-1226), Giunta family, Jerome Saint (d. 419 or 20), Joan of Arc, Saint (1412-1431), Johnny Appleseed (1774-1845), Moses (Biblical leader), Patrick Saint (373?-463?), Richard Whittington (d. 1423), Sherwood family, Thomas Malory Sir (15th cent)Time
Charles VII, 1422-1461, Middle English, 1100-1500, Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C., Stuarts, 1603-1714ID Numbers
- OLID: OL227888A
- ISNI: 0000000109564011
- VIAF: 15381104
- Wikidata: Q13533595
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q13533595
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- Sarah Margaret Moore
- Sarah Margaret "Peggy" Hodges
- Hodges, Margaret.
- Margaret [illustrated by peter parnall] Hodges
- Hodges M
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