Gail Sheehy
Author, journalist
A world-renowned author, journalist, and popular lecturer, Gail Sheehy has interviewed thousands of women and men and written 17 books throughout her 50 years as a writer. Her earliest revolutionary book, Passages, was named by a Library of Congress survey as one of the ten most influential books of our times. Passages remained on The New York Times Bestseller List for more than three years and has been reprinted in 28 languages. Sheehy’s autobiography is called DARING: My Passages. It was published in September 2014 by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins.
Sheehy is also a journalist who has covered national and world leaders. She culminated a decade of following Hillary Clinton for Vanity Fair with the biography, Hillary’s Choice, exploring the personal ambitions and vulnerabilities that drive the world’s most public woman. She has written about the character and psychology of presidential candidates from Robert Kennedy to Barack Obama and world leaders from Margaret Thatcher to Saddam Hussein.
Sheehy convened The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama event at The Common Good in 2009.
Twitter: @Gale_Sheehy
