Gail Henion (1936-11-27)November 27, 1936 Mamaroneck, New York, U.S.
Died
August 24, 2020(2020-08-24) (aged 83) Southampton, New York, U.S.
Occupation
Journalist, author
Education
University of Vermont (BA) Columbia University (MA)
Literary movement
New Journalism
Notable works
Passages
Spouse
Albert Francis Sheehy
(m. 1960; div. 1968)
Clay Felker
(m. 1984; died 2008)
Website
Official website
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 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.[3] 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.[4]
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.
^Gail Sheehy, Journalist, Author and Social Observer, Dies at 83
^"Journalist and Author Gail Sheehy Dies at 83". Variety. 2020-08-25. Archived from the original on 2023-06-03.
^"Overview" Archived 2019-01-19 at the Wayback Machine. Gail Sheehy.
^World Archipelago. "Daring: My Passages". HarperCollins US.
GailSheehy (born Gail Henion; November 27, 1936 – August 24, 2020) was an American author, journalist, and lecturer. She was the author of seventeen books...
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initiation rite in fraternities and seminaries. It was cited in 1971 by GailSheehy as a form of assault against grade school girls, which did not commonly...
in 1969; she died in 2020. GailSheehy, the writer, in 1984. By this marriage he had a daughter, Mohm Sheehy, whom Sheehy adopted from Cambodia, and a...
child-rearing,' starting a family, coming to the fore as priorities. GailSheehy, however, signposts the same twenties/thirties division differently,...
Stevens, On Jung (London 1990) p. 121; Archetype (London 1982) p. 115 GailSheehy, New Passages (London 1996) p. 284 Terence Real, I Don't Want to Talk...
read the profile of Governor George W. Bush, by my friend and colleague GailSheehy, in this month's Vanity Fair. All those jokes and cartoons and websites...
Rootsweb. Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2009-05-02. GailSheehy (January 10, 1972). "The Secret of Grey Gardens". New York Magazine....
predictive of ego integrity than were other personality variables'. GailSheehy termed the later stage of 'Second Adulthood...Age of Integrity (65-85+)'...
been for more people to spend more time in the status, a phenomenon GailSheehy termed Provisional Adulthood. Similarly, Jeffrey Arnett's Emerging Adulthood...
‘’Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis’’ in 2000. "Inside Grey Gardens With GailSheehy -- New York Magazine - Nymag". New York Magazine. 13 April 2009. Retrieved...
has interviewed Woody Allen, Tom Brokaw, Katie Couric, Jane Pauley, GailSheehy, Tavis Smiley, and Rosie O'Donnell, among others. Saltz is the sister...
2005 edn, p.342. Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, Penguin, 2005 edn, p.364. GailSheehy, "Ex-Spook Sirrs: Early Osama Call Got Her Ejected", The New York Observer...
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military volunteer and World War II veteran (Independent Belgian Brigade). GailSheehy, 83, American author (Hillary's Choice), complications from pneumonia...
philosopher (d. 2008) 1935 – Willie Pastrano, American boxer (d. 1997) 1936 – GailSheehy, American journalist and author (d. 2020) 1938 – John Ashworth, English...
March 2017. Bern (1987), p. 43; Ogden (1990), pp. 9, 12. Sheehy, Gail (1989). "GailSheehy on the most powerful woman in the world". Vanity Fair. Vol...
prospects of the magazine. Among others, Brown signed up Marie Brenner, GailSheehy—who wrote a series of widely read political profiles, including a cover...
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