Nora Sayre

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Nora Clemens Sayre (born September 20, 1932 in Hamilton , Bermuda , † August 8, 2001 in New York City ) was an American journalist , film critic and essayist .

Life

Nora Sayre was the daughter of two journalists. Her father Joel Sayre worked for the New Yorker and her mother Gertrude Sayre for New York World . In her youth she had contact with Edmund Wilson and AJ Liebling , who were close friends of the family. She attended Friends Seminary in New York City and graduated from Radcliffe College . She then moved to London , where she lived on Cheyne Walk. There she had contact with the literary scene, including Arthur Koestler , Elizabeth Jane Howard and Donald Ogden Stewart . For ten months she lived with Tyrone Power and Mai Zetterling in a shared apartment in Kensington .

From 1965 to 1970 she worked as an American correspondent for the British weekly New Statesman . From 1973 to 1975 she worked as a film critic for the New York Times . In 1975 she left the newspaper and became a freelance journalist. She worked as a literary critic for both the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times . She has also written for The Nation , The Progressive and the Esquire . From 1981 she was also a visiting professor for writing courses at Columbia University for several years .

From 1957 to 1961 she was married to the British economist Robert Neild . The marriage ended in divorce.

Sayre was a heavy smoker and had suffered from lung disease for years. On August 8, 2001, at the age of 68, she died in Lenox Hill Hospital of complications from pulmonary emphysema .

Publications

  • Sixties Going on Seventies (1973)
  • Running time: Films of the Cold War (1982)
  • Previous Convictions: A Journey Through the 1950s (1995)
  • On the Wing: A Young American Abroad (2001)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Elaine Woo: N. Sayre; Essayist on Cold War Era , latimes.com , accessed April 20, 2020
  2. ^ A b David Hughes: Nora Sayre , independent.co.uk , accessed April 20, 2020
  3. ↑ a b c d NORA SAYRE, 68 , chicagotribune.com , accessed April 20, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Sayre, Nora
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sayre, Nora Clemens (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and film critic
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamilton , Bermuda
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 2001
Place of death New York City