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American writer

Gail Sheehy (born Gail Henion; November 27, 1936^[1] – August 24, 2020)^[2] 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 focus on cultural shifts, including Passages (1976), which was named one of the ten most influential books of our times by the Library of Congress.^[3] Sheehy penned biographies and character studies of major twentieth-century leaders, including Hillary Clinton, both presidents Bush,