Peggy Sloane (October 18, 1943 – May 11, 2009) was an American television soap opera script writer for more than 23 years, until 1999.

[1] She graduated from Chapel Hill High School in North Carolina in 1961,[2] and in 1965 graduated from Wellesley College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa,[3] was a Durant Scholar, and won the Judith Brown Cook Prize in English.

[4] Sloane was a writer or co-writer on several television programs, especially soap operas, including Hocus Focus (TV series) (1979-1980), Capitol (1982–1987), All My Children (1987–1989, 1997–1998), Another World (1990–1992, head writer 1992–1994),[5][6] Guiding Light (1994–1995),[7] One Life to Live (1995-1996, co-head-writer 1996-1997),[8] and As the World Turns (1998–1999).

She also won a Writers Guild of America Award in 1999, for All My Children, and was nominated six other times.

Sloane was known for handling storylines with sensitive themes, such as a character learning he has bipolar disorder.