Hale, Nancy (1908–1988)

US writer. She worked as an editor for Vogue (1928–32) and Vanity Fair (1932–33), and was the first woman reporter for the New York Times (1935). A lecturer at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Middlebury, Vermont (1957–65), she was based in Charlottesville, Virginia. She wrote a variety of plays, critical essays, novels, memoirs, including A New England Childhood (1958), and a biography of Mary Cassatt. She is perhaps best known for her short stories, as in the collection The Pattern of Perfection (1960). The daughter of artist Philip L Hale, she was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She studied art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (1927–28).