Born in Niagara Falls, New York, Peggy O’Shea began her television writing career with such series as Dr. Kildare, Ben Casey and Have Gun — Will Travel. O’Shea was a former head writer for the daytime dramas Capitol and One Life to Live, winning a Daytime Emmy Award and a Writers Guild of America Award for her work on the latter.
Her writing for One Life to Live spanned much of the 1980s and resulted in a total of four Writers Guild of America Awards and five Daytime Emmy Awards.
O’Shea died on May 1, 2014, in Los Angeles. She was 91.