From grade school on the battlefield at Gettysburg to Jr. and Sr. High in the once US capital city of York PA, Ms. Bell developed an intense fascination for the absense of women in accounts of the historic places and events famous in Franklin, Adams and York Counties. The current result of which is FIXIN' THINGS, a novel of women at Gettysburg © Feb. 2002 Later study in history and psychology led Ms. Bell to Sappho, The Lesbian, The Poetess, as Homer was The Poet, a woman whose literary genius so frightened men that they systematically destroyed all copies of her nine published books, leaving a scant 144 lines - few of which are complete. From these fragmented lines, Ms. Bell created a novel rich in the textures of ancient Greece, yet modern as tomorrow's fashions. In Peggy Ullman Bell's PSAPPHA © 2000, Sappho's own words and phrases enhance the fabric of the story like metallic threads woven so delicately into an intricate tapestry that it becomes impossible to distinguish the imported threads from the weaver's own.

Founding president, Oklahoma Delta Chapter Pi Gamma Mu, National Social Science Honor Society Associate of Arts in Law Enforcement, University of Arkansas @ Little Rock, class of '75 Bachelor of Science, University of Tulsa, class of '77 Mississippi Teacher Certification in Social Studies and English

Ms. Bell is currently a widow residing near the Jefferson Davis Presidential Library and estate on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. "But, I live in cyberspace," Ms. Bell tells us in her softly insistent southern drawl. True to her word, Peggy Ullman Bell co-hosted Novel Ideas Workshop in the Writers Corner on AOL for several years, has published articles on writing and research advice at NovelAdvice.com, and teaches Creating History I at WritersCollege.com

Peggy Ullman Bell Presents...
Official Site for this author of historical fiction contains writing & research advice, poetry, novel excerpts, reviews, interviews, reader's guides and audio of the author/poet reading from her work.

SAPPHO SINGS
An inovative fictionalized biography that reads as if channeled by the great poet's most intimate friend. Psappha, as Sappho called herself in her own soft Aeolian dialect comes to life on pages that celebrate her as The Lesbian Poetess, sans apology, sans censure.

Women at Gettysburg FIXIN' THINGS
Honoring all women who sacrifice so that others can live free. "A finely honed story of humor and hope and the capacity of women to support one another." Prof. Justin Quantrill

Creating History I
A place for historical and fantasy novelists to acquire or polish the skills needed for the writing that comes before and between the writing.