Person
Gail Sheehy
Writing
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- Jan 1, 1937
- Died
- Aug 24, 2020
Gail Sheehy 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gail Sheehy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
