Peggy Seeger is a singer and songwriter. She was born in 1935 in New York City into a musical family. Both her mother, Ruth Crawford Seeger, and her father, Charles Louis Seeger, were musicians. Her brothers Pete and Mike are well-known folk musicians. Peggy Seeger was married to and worked with Ewan MacColl from 1956 to 1989, when MacColl died. Seeger has three children and seven grandchildren.

The best-known of Peggy's songs are "Gonna Be an Engineer" (which has become one of the anthems of the women's movement) and "The Ballad of Springhill." Her songs have been recorded on numerous records, most of them made with Ewan MacColl. She also has made many solo albums of her own compositions, the most recent of which is An Odd Collection.