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Article: Peggy Lamson, 84; playwright, biographer and feminist writer
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 14, 1996
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Peggy Lamson, an essayist, playwright and biographer of economist
John Kenneth Galbraith and American Civil Liberties Union founder
Roger Baldwin, died Saturday in her home in Cambridge. She was 84.
Mrs. Lamson was born Peggy Friedlander in Cincinnati. She
attended Wheaton College and the University of Cincinnati, but "hated
it," according to a profile published in the Globe on Feb. 17, 1981.
But that didn't stop her from leading an active college life.
She married an academic, the late Roy Lamson, a professor of
English at Williams College and MIT. While Mr. Lamson was teaching
at Williams College and Mrs. Lamson was raising the couple's two
children, she began writing teleplays during the ...