Nancy Hunt (1927-1999), born Ridgely Hunt, was an American reporter and copy editor. Before her transition, she was known for her service in the American army in the Second World War and her negative comments about hippies and women, but something changed in the late 1960s when she started to grow her hair long and wear makeup. In the next years, Nancy, as a man, got married twice but her marriage ended when she underwent gender reassignment surgery. In the early 1980s, she married Wallace Bowman.
"Nancy Ridgely Hunt Bowman was born on February 1, 1927, in New York, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA. Nancy Hunt Bowman worked for 21 years as an editor and writer for the Chicago Tribune and won awards for her work as a foreign correspondent covering the Vietnam War under the byline Ridgely Hunt.
She died June 21 at a seniors residence in Bonita Springs, Fla., at age 72. Mrs. Bowman was the widow of Wallace R. Bowman Sr.
In 1978, she wrote and published "Mirror Image," a detailed account of the sex-change operation that enabled Ridgely Hunt to become Nancy Hunt. The book was written from a feminine perspective and only mentioned her earlier identity in an oblique way, noting that the male journalist she used to be had worked as a popular feature writer for the Tribune."
