Virginia Hughes

Virginia Hughes is known as the author of the Peggy Lane Theater Stories, a series of books for younger readers that includes Peggy Finds the Theater, Peggy Plays Off-Broadway, Peggy Goes Hollywood, and several other installments published in the 1960s.

Reliable biographical detail about her appears to be scarce online, so it is safest to say that her work survives more clearly than her personal history. Catalog and reader sources consistently connect her name with the Peggy books, which follow an aspiring actress through theater-centered adventures in the United States and abroad.

If this is the Virginia Hughes born in 1925 that you mean, publicly available sources I could confirm still focus mainly on her books rather than her life story. That makes her a good example of an author whose stories have remained easier to trace than the person behind them.