Peggy Gavan

Peggy Gavan is a journalist, editor, volunteer firefighter, and New Yorker with a passion for cats and New York City history. Ever since she started writing her blog, The Hatching Cat: True and Unusual Animal Tales of Old New York (www.hatchingcatnyc.com), she has been on a never-ending quest to explore the history of New York City through animal tales from the 1800s to World War II. Many of these tales are amazing, some are curiously odd, and others fall under the file called “You just can’t make this stuff up.” Her favorite stories, though, are the ones that make people say, “Wow, who knew!?” Her new book, The Cat Men of Gotham, features some of her favorite stories about cats and the men who loved them in Old New York.

Peggy lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband and their two cats.