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==Personal life== Sheehan was introduced to his wife, [[Susan Sheehan|Susan Margulies]], by fellow reporter [[Gay Talese]].<ref name="WP obit">{{cite news|title=Neil Sheehan, N.Y. Times reporter who obtained Pentagon Papers and chronicled 'Bright Shining Lie' of Vietnam, dies at 84|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/neil-sheehan-ny-times-reporter-who-obtained-pentagon-papers-and-chronicled-bright-shining-lie-of-vietnam-dies-at-84/2021/01/07/86794382-f943-11e7-ad8c-ecbb62019393_story.html|first=Harrison|last=Smith|date=January 7, 2021|access-date=January 9, 2021|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> She wrote for ''[[The New Yorker]]'' at the time,<ref name="WP obit"/> and subsequently won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for ''[[Is There No Place on Earth for Me?]]'' in 1983.<ref name=pulitzer/> They married in 1965,<ref name="WP obit"/> and had two daughters (Catherine and Maria).<ref name="NYT obit"/> Sheehan died on January 7, 2021, at his home in [[Washington, D.C.]] He was 84, and suffered from complications of [[Parkinson's disease]] in the time leading up to his death.<ref name="NYT obit"/>
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