Gail Sheehy

Sheehy in 1981 Gail Sheehy (born Gail Henion; November 27, 1936 – August 24, 2020) was an American author, journalist, and lecturer. She was the author of seventeen books and numerous high-profile articles for magazines such as ''New York'' and ''Vanity Fair''. Sheehy played a part in the movement Tom Wolfe called the New Journalism, sometimes known as creative nonfiction, in which journalists and essayists experimented with adopting a variety of literary techniques such as scene setting, dialogue, status details to denote social class, and getting inside the story and sometimes reporting the thoughts of a central character.

Many of her books focused on cultural shifts, including ''Passages'' (1976), which was named one of the ten most influential books of our times by the Library of Congress. Sheehy penned biographies and character studies of major twentieth-century leaders, including Hillary Clinton, both presidents Bush, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. Her most recent book, ''Daring: My Passages'' (Sept. 2014), is a memoir.

Sheehy's article "The Secret of Grey Gardens", a cover story from the January 10, 1972, issue of ''New York'', brought the bizarre bohemian life of Jacqueline Kennedy's aunt Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and cousin Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale to public attention. Their story was the basis for the film ''Grey Gardens'' and a Broadway musical of the same name. Provided by Wikipedia
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    by Sheehy, Gail
    Published 1988
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    by Sheehy, Gail
    Published 1981
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    by Sheehy, Gail
    Published 1971
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    by Sheehy, Gail
    Published 1986
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    by Sheehy, Gail
    Published 1976
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    by Sheehy, Gail
    Published 1990
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    by Sheehy, Gail
    Published 1992
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    by Sheehy, Gail
    Published 1995
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    by Sheehy, Gail
    Published 1998
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    by Sheehy, Gail
    Published 1999
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    by Sheehy, Gail
    Published 2000
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    by Sheehy, Gail
    Published 2006
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    Published 2007
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