Neil Sheehan was born on October 27, 1936 in Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA as Cornelius Mahoney Sheehan. He was a writer, known for A Bright Shining Lie (1998), Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry (2004) and Dateline: Saigon (2016). He was married to Susan Sheehan. He died on January 7, 2021 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.