She was a professor of library science at the University of Pittsburgh, where she retired in 1976. Her 1985 book Saint George and the Dragon, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, won the Caldecott Medal of the American Library Association. Beginning in 1958 with One Little Drum, she wrote and published more than 40 books. She trained as a librarian at Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University, under Elizabeth Nesbitt, and she volunteered as a storyteller at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. when in 1937 he became curator at the Stephen Foster Memorial. A 1932 graduate of Vassar College, she arrived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband Fletcher Hodges Jr. She enrolled at Tudor Hall, a college preparatory school for girls. She was born Sarah Margaret Moore in Indianapolis, Indiana to Arthur Carlisle and Annie Marie Moore. "I need good ideas, and they don't come out of machines," she once said.Margaret "Peggy" Hodges was an American writer of books for children. She wrote her stories on a notepad or a typewriter. Hodges died of heart disease on Decemat her home in Oakmont, Pennsylvania.
Her 1985 book Saint George and the Dragon, illustrated b Margaret "Peggy" Hodges was an American writer of books for children.
Margaret "Peggy" Hodges was an American writer of books for children.
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