

Peg Bauernfeind
Peg Bauernfeind lives on a backwater on the Mississippi River near Wabasha, Minnesota. She is the author of Danny Malloy and His Mississippi River Samurai and Danny Malloy, Samurai Summer. She says, "I?write?what I remember and what I've?been told?by the river people around me.? I write?about the thoughts and yearnings of young people shared with me as a foster parent and teacher. Everything about Danny?is fiction. M.A.? Hugger (rhymes with sugar) is my pen name and also?my mother?s maiden name.? I think she knew I?d write a book some day."