Nora Sayre
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Born | Nora Clemens Sayre September 20, 1932 |
Died | August 8, 2001 New York City | (aged 68)
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Nora Clemens Sayre (September 20, 1932 – August 8, 2001) was an American film critic and essayist. She was a reviewer of films for The New York Times in the 1970s, and, from 1981, a writing teacher for many years at Columbia University.[1] She specialised in the Cold War and authored books such as Running Time: Films of the Cold War (1982) in which she examined Hollywood movie-making in the 1950s.[2]
Personal life
Born in Hamilton, Bermuda, her father was Joel Sayre of The New Yorker; family friends were A. J. Liebling and Edmund Wilson.[1][3][4]
She attended Friends Seminary,[5] and was a graduate of Radcliffe College.[6]
A mentor was the English critic and book reviewer
She married the economist Robert Neild in 1957 but the marriage was dissolved four years later.[1] She died in 2001, at the age of 68, in New York City.
Legacy
The Nora Sayre Endowed Residency for Nonfiction was created at Yaddo, an artists' community in Saratoga Springs, New York, to support her literary legacy.[8]
Bibliography
- (1973) Sixties Going on Seventies (ISBN 9780385276214
- (1982) Running time: Films of the Cold War (ISBN 9780385276214
- (2001) On the Wing: A Young American Abroad (ISBN 9781582431444
References
- ^ a b c "Nora Sayre obituary". The Independent. September 7, 2001. Archived from the original on June 21, 2022. Retrieved January 15, 2011.
- ^ Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher (August 9, 2001). "Nora Sayre, Film Critic And Essayist, Dies at 68". The New York Times. Retrieved January 15, 2011.
- ^ "N. Sayre; Essayist on Cold War Era". Los Angeles Times. August 11, 2001.
- TheGuardian.com. August 21, 2001.
- ISBN 978-0-06-075708-3. Retrieved January 16, 2011.
- ISBN 978-0-618-05672-9. Retrieved January 16, 2011.
- ^ Sayre, Nora (April 10, 1977). "John Davenport Remembered". The New York Times. p. 6.
- ISBN 978-0-307-38900-8. Retrieved January 16, 2011.
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