Gail Sheehy

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.

27 November 1936

Born on the same birth day (27 November): Bappi Lahiri • Callie Khouri • Charles Scott Sherrington • Charles-François-Frédéric, marquis de Montholon-Sémonville • David Bellion • Derroll Adams • Freddie Sears • Jatindramohan Bagchi • Kevin Henkes • Martin Gramatica • Nicole Brossard • Samantha Harris • Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria • Sir John Wray, 2nd Baronet

Born in the same month (November 1936): Bob Graham • C. K. Williams • Dick Cavett • Gwyneth Jones (soprano) • Hans van Abeelen • Jack Keller (songwriter) • Katsuhisa Hattori • Luciano Fabro • Mary Travers • Rose Bird • Roy Emerson • Takao Saito • Wolf Biermann • Yuan T. Lee