Born in the heart of the Great Depression, Peggy Ullman Bell grew up in books, dozens of books, as many as 12 a week the summer she was 15. Reared in historic Gettysburg and York, Pennsylvania, Ms. Bell yearned to learn what women were doing while men were fighting battles and making revolutions. The history books did not tell her, and thus her search began. Early on, a librarian said, "If you can't find the book you want to read, perhaps you should write it." Her first novel, SAPPHO SINGS was a direct result of that sage advice, Returning to her roots she wrote Women at Gettysburg FIXIN' THINGS, as a gift to her mother, now deceased.