# Virginia Coigney

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'''Virginia A. Coigney''' (October 2, 1917 – December 18, 1997) was an American civic leader, journalist and author.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SL&p_theme=sl&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F48254E8F504995&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM | title=Virginia Coigney | date=December 21, 1997 | work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch}}</ref> She married journalist and author [Robert Travers](/source/Robert_Travers_(writer)) in the mid-1930s and was the mother of folk singer [Mary Travers](/source/Mary_Travers) of [Peter, Paul and Mary](/source/Peter%2C_Paul_and_Mary) fame.

==Biography==
Coigney was born in [Piggott, Arkansas](/source/Piggott%2C_Arkansas), and raised near Albany, New York, where she quit school to become a reporter for the ''[Albany Knickerbocker Press](/source/Albany_Knickerbocker_Press)''.<ref name="Coigney_obit">{{cite news | url=http://archive.recordonline.com/1997/12-21-97/coign.htm | title=Civic leader Coigney dies | date=December 21, 1997|agency=[Associated Press](/source/Associated_Press) | accessdate=2009-09-17}}</ref>

In later life Coigney was an author and radio/television scriptwriter.  She wrote scripts for the soap operas ''[Young Doctor Malone](/source/Young_Doctor_Malone)'' and ''[The Edge of Night](/source/The_Edge_of_Night)''.<ref name="Coigney_obit"/> She wrote a biography of Dr. [Margaret Sanger](/source/Margaret_Sanger), the birth-control advocate.

Coigney died in a [Greenwich](/source/Greenwich%2C_Connecticut), [Connecticut](/source/Connecticut) nursing home. She was survived by daughters, [Mary Travers](/source/Mary_Travers) and Ann Gordon, as well as four grandchildren and two great-granddaughters.<ref name="Coigney_obit"/>

One of the books written by Virginia Coigney in a "Do You Know" series of books is titled ''Who Did It?'' It was edited by Eve Merriam and illustrated by [Murray Tinkelman](/source/Murray_Tinkelman). The first edition was printed in 1963 in the U.S. and published simultaneously by Collier-Macmillan Limited, London. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 63-12789. Other books in the series include ''Where Is It?'', ''Who Said It?'' and ''What's in the Middle of a Riddle?''.

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