# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gail-sheehy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:01:27.365Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gail-sheehy"
name: "Gail Sheehy"
slug: "gail-sheehy"
description: "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."
tagline: "American journalist and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gail_Sheehy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1936-11-27"
deathDate: "2020-08-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.12
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.707778666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0790645/"
    handle:    "nm0790645"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "جايل شيهى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "قیل شیه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gail Sheehy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Sheehy"
    title: "Gail Sheehy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Sheehy"
    title: "Gail Sheehy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Sheehy"
    title: "Gail Sheehy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Sheehy"
    title: "Gail Sheehy"
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  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9B%96%E5%B0%94%C2%B7%E5%B8%8C%E4%BC%8A"
    title: "盖尔·希伊"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5517167"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2543928"
    title: "Gail Sheehy"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump