Peggy Appleby Auvil

Background

Peggy Appleby Auvil was born on 19 February 1954 in Springfield, Missouri, United States. She is a daughter of Sam Appleby and Anne Appleby.

Education

Peggy Auvil's claim to fame came in 1972 when she won ‘Teacher’s Headache,’ an award given by the faculty and staff. Although it was a joke award when the winner was ‘awarded’ with an eighteen-pound ham at a drawing held at the opening of a local grocery store this was the time frame has eluded her. Family and youth experiences were the main reasons she turned to writing. She received a Bachelor of Science degree at Southwest Missouri State University in 1986.

Career

Peggy started her carriere as an elementary school teacher in High Pointe Elementary School in Missouri in 1976. After about twenty year later she became a motivational speaker and demonstrator for education classes at Southwest Missouri State University.

Peggy's only published book is called "We Bought a Bird That Said Dirty Words." It was inspired by a few of her elementary students during the time of her education, where teaching dictionary skills was a part of her third-grade curriculum.

Besides teaching at the moment she has two works in progress: a poem "If You Toot Your Horn Too Loud, You Can’t Hear the Rest of the Band" and a story called "Pigs Get Fat... Hogs Get Slaughtered."

Achievements

• Despite of Auvil's true intentions to write a book solely as a joke about her childhood, her book"We Bought a Bird That Said Dirty Words" received high commendations due to a good character development, relevant to real teenage culture and it's features.

Works

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  • We Bought a Bird That Said Dirty Words

    (Fathers, beware! Mothers, take care! Oh, the putrid words...)

    1999

Connections

Peggy Auvil is married to Tom Auvil who is a dentist. They have four children named Mark, Trent, Travis and Laura Dalton.

Father:

Sam Appleby

Mother:

Anne Appleby

Son:

Mark Dalton

Son:

Trent Dalton

Son:

Travis Dalton

Daughter:

Laura Dalton

References

• Contemporary Authors New Revision Series: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Non-Fiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other Fields
  2010