PEGGY PHILLIPS has been a professional writer and public relations specialist for more than 40 years. In the City of her birth, New York, she served, during the 1940's, as press representative for The Theatre Guild and The Group Theatre, among other theatre companies. In the 1960s and '70s she was Director of Publicity for Center Theatre Group at the Los Angeles Music Center's Mark Taper Forum and Ahmanson Theatres, as well as Director of Publicity for the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera.

A member of the Dramatists Guild and Writers Guild of America, Peggy is a produced Broadway playwright, also film and television writer, whose major credits include "Days of Our Lives", "Lassie", "National Velvet", "The Donna Reed Show", "My Three Sons," "My Sister Eileen," NBC Matinee Theatre, Kraft Theatre, "Adventures of Robin Hood" (Britain's Richard Greene version), and "You Are There."

Her first published novel, "Two Women Under Water" (1998), is based on a dramatic encounter in the Red Sea during a scuba-diving trip. Up until her 82nd year, she was an avid scuba diver in some of the world's most remote sites. Her second published novel, "A Golden Sorrow", (2000), exposes a highly charged confrontation between Napoleon's two sons, and the woman who loved them both. Her third published novel, "Ascent To Hell" (2001), is a contemporary action-adventure involving a group of climbers who undertake to probe the mysterious legend of a mountain range in today's explosive Middle East. Her most recent published book, "My Brother's Keeper", is a memoir celebrating life in New York City from the 1920's to the 1950's.

Peggy lives in Southern California near her family including two devoted grandchildren. Her constant companion, riding shotgun on her golf-cart, is a feisty Jack Russell Terrier named, appropriately, "Cheeky."