Peggy Dern

Peggy Gaddis Dern was born Erolie Pearl Gaddis March 5, 1895 in Gaddistown, Georgia. She attended and graduated from Reinhardt College, and then worked editing periodicals, first in Atlanta and later New York City, where she edited movie fan magazines and racy pulp periodicals. In 1931, she married John Sherman Dern, a member of a traveling minstrel group. Later, Dern moved on to writing paperback novels. Dern died in 1966 and was buried in Fellowship Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery in Tucker, Georgia. ==Pseudonyms==

Dern utilized her actual surname and nearly a dozen pseudonyms during her career. The majority of her books were published under the names Peggy Gaddis Georgia Craig, James Clayford, as well as Roberta Courtland, Joan Tucker, Sylvia Erskine, and Luther Gordon. ==Partial bibliography==

• The Affairs of a Country Girl, Gail Jordan, Cameo, 1952 (Country Girl, 1954) • The April Heart, Peggy Dern; Arcadia, 1959 • As Good As Married, Perry Lindsay, Phoenix, 1945 • At Granada Court, Peggy Dern, Arcadia, 1959, Wright Brown (UK), 1960 (Karen, Valentine, s.d.) • ''At Ruby's Place'', Joan Tucker, Cameo, 1952 (Waterfront Club, 1954), também em1956, como John Tucker, pela Venus • The Babe in Arms, Perry Lindsay, Phoenix, 1943 • Back Home, Peggy Gaddis, Arcadia, 1950. Também pela Manor, Star (Austrália) e 5-Star (UK), 1972 (ou como “Reaching Out for Love”, Large Print, 1996) • Backwoods Girl, Peggy Gaddis; Venus, 1954 • Bayou Nurse, Peggy Gaddis, Arcadia, 1964 • Beauty to Burn, Peggy Gaddis, Godwin, 1937 • Beloved Intruder, Peggy Dern, Arcadia, 1958 • Betsy Moran, Peggy Dern, Arcadia, 1964 • Beware of Romance, Roberta Courtland, Gramercy, 1948 • Coast Guard Girl, Georgia Craig, Arcadia, 1945 • Courtesan, Joan Sherman, Godwin, 1936 (publicado como Lulie, pela Handi-Book, 1949) • ''Doctor Merry's Husband'', Peggy Gaddis, MacFadden, 1962. • Eileen Duggan, Peggy Gaddis, Arcadia, 1952 • Goodbye, My Heart, Peggy Dern, Arcadia, 1941 • Marriage Can Wait, James Clayford, Quarter, 1949 • Nora was a Nurse, Peggy Gaddis, MacFadden, 1953 • Nurse at Sundown, Peggy Gaddis, Magnum Books, 1958. • Perry Kimbro, R.N., Georgia Craig, Arcadia, 1950 • Shanty Girl, Joan Tucker, Venus, 1953 • ''Satan's Gal'', Carolina Lee, Handi, 1950 • Show Boat Girl, Roberta Courtland, Gramercy, 1940 • The Girl Next Door, Peggy Gaddis, Arcadia, 1949 • ''The Marryin'Kind'', Roberta Courtland, Gramercy, 1947 • Young Doctor Merry, Peggy Gaddis, Arcadia, 1944 • Young Nurse, Sylvia Erskine, Cameo, 1952 • Wings on Her Heart, Roberta Courtland, Gramercy, 1942 • Winter Circus, Peggy Dern, Arcadia, 1943 ==References==