Nancy Flagg Gibney

Nancy Flagg Gibney (1922–12 February 1980) was an American magazine writer and editor who moved from New York City to St. John, United States Virgin Islands. Her family's property is now known as Gibney Beach on Hawksnest Bay in St. John. She was born in 1921 in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of J. Francis Flagg, the New England manager of Macmillan Publishers. She graduated from Smith College in 1942. At Smith, she won Vogue magazine's Prix de Paris writing competition. The award came with a year's internship in the magazine's Paris office, but due to the war, she worked in Manhattan. She later became an editor in the Vogue feature department, working under the legendary editor in chief, Edna Woolman Chase. She wrote pieces for...