Peggy Adler made her first professionally published illustration for one of her father's books when she was thirteen years old and has written and illustrated many more since then. In 1991, she served as a consultant to the US House of Representatives' October Surprise Task Force. She's a 2001 recipient of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers' General Richard G. Stilwell Award; and is a former police commissioner and softball coach, who currently chairs the Town of Clinton, Connecticut's Historic District Commission.