Frank Gibney
Frank Bray Gibney (September 21, 1924 – April 9, 2006) was an American journalist, editor, writer and scholar.
Gibney was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
He served as correspondent for Time, editor of Newsweek and Life, then was vice chairman of the Board of Editors at Encyclopædia Britannica and wrote or edited eleven books, most notably about Japan.
During World War II, he worked as a naval interrogator at Iroquois Point near Pearl Harbor.
His books include The Penkovsky Paper and The Pacific Century, which was later adapted into an Emmy Award-winning public television series.
He was also the father of Academy Award-winning documentary film director and producer Alex Gibney, and is interviewed in Alex's documentary film Taxi to the Dark Side (2007).
In 1979, Frank Gibney founded the Pacific Basin Institute, which moved to Pomona College in 1997.
Death
Frank Gibney died from congestive heart failure on April 9, 2006 in Santa Barbara, California, aged 81.
Legacy
Following his death, the Journal of American-East Asian Relations, which Gibney had helped to found, established the Frank Gibney Award for a graduate student essay in the field of American-East Asian relations.
