Gail Sheehy

January 1, 1937 — August 24, 2020 (83 years)
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.

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Known For

  • Hustling
    Hustling1975

Filmography

1982
Traveling Hopefully · as Self - Author

1975
Hustling · as Book