Coigney was born in
Piggott, Arkansas, and raised near Albany, New York, where she quit school to become a reporter for the
Albany Knickerbocker Press. In later life Coigney was an author and radio/television scriptwriter. She wrote scripts for the soap operas
Young Doctor Malone and
The Edge of Night. She wrote a biography of Dr.
Margaret Sanger, the birth-control advocate. Coigney died in a
Greenwich,
Connecticut nursing home. She was survived by daughters,
Mary Travers and Ann Gordon, as well as four grandchildren and two great-granddaughters. 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. 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?''. ==References==