
Peggy Seeger:
A Life of Music, Love, and Politics
a book by Jean R. Freedman
The first full-length biography of the music legend.
Born into folk music’s first family, Peggy Seeger has blazed her own trail artistically and personally. Jean R. Freedman draws on a wealth of research and conversations with Seeger to tell the life story of one of music’s most charismatic performers.
“O, how I love this book! It gives me everything I wanted to know about my friend, the salty and sweet Peggy Seeger and her unique and prolific family. All the pain is there, but so are the achievements and the joys. This book goes on my shelf next to The Mayor of MacDougal Street, and I can offer no higher praise than that.” —Tom Paxton
About Peggy Seeger
Peggy Seeger, the daughter of musicologist Charles Seeger and award-winning composer Ruth Crawford Seeger, was, perhaps, destined for a life of music. But what a life!

Peggy Seeger [photograph by Martin Rosenbaum]
Ewan MacColl died in 1989, and in 1994, Peggy returned to the United States. She spent 12 years in Asheville, North Carolina, while continuing to tour, record, and write songs. In 2006, she moved to Boston to teach songwriting at Northeastern University. In 2010, she returned to England, where she continues her exceptional career. Her most recent album, Everything Changes, was released in 2014. It is composed primarily of original songs, one of which, “Swim to the Star,” was named Best Original Song in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2015. A new album is currently in preparation. Peggy has also written a memoir, “First Time Ever“, which is a companion piece to this biography and is available now.