Sally Belfrage

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Sally Belfrage

Sally Belfrage (October 4, 1936 – March 14, 1994) was a

Civil Rights Movement and her own memoirs about her life.[1] According to her obituary in The New York Times, she was 'an intelligent and humorous journalist and critic who ardently searched for the truth'.[3]

Life

Sally Mary Caroline Belfrage was born in

Hollywood, California, on 4 October 1936.[2] Her parents, Cedric Belfrage and Molly Castle, later moved to New York where Sally studied at the Bronx High School of Science and Hunter College,[2] before her parents were deported to London as alleged Communists.[1][2] After her return to England, Sally Belfrage matriculated at the London School of Economics,[1][2] and after graduation she attended 6th World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow, went to Communist China [4] and worked for the Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, in 1957.[2]

Belfrage became a social activist and world traveller.

war tax resistance vow, along with 447 other American writers and editors. It was published in the January 30, 1969 edition of the New York Post.[1]

Death

Sally Belfrage lived most of her life in London, where she died at Middlesex Hospital from lung cancer (adenocarcinoma) in 1994 at age 57.[2][9]

Marriage and family

In 1965, she married Bernard Pomerance who was best known for his play, The Elephant Man.[10] They had two children: Eve Pomerance, a casting director, screenwriter and producer in Hollywood, and Moby Pomerance, a playwright and screenwriter.[1][11][12]

Belfrage's brother was Nicolas Belfrage, the Master in wine and wine critic.[13] Her father's brother was Bruce Belfrage, the BBC Newsreader during World War II, and her great uncle was Bryan Powley, the actor.[14]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Obituary: Sally Belfrage". The Independent. 16 March 1994. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Pace, Eric (15 March 1994). "Sally Belfrage Dies; Writer Specializing In Memoirs Was 57". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  3. ^
    OCLC 320788280
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  4. ^ "AMERICANS ABROAD: The Mis-Guided Tour". TIME. 26 August 1957. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  5. OCLC 84590094
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  6. ISBN 9780060926267
    . Retrieved 22 June 2019 – via Open WorldCat.
  7. OCLC 861041871
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  8. OCLC 47783831
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  9. ^ Guide to the Sally Belfrage papers Archived 2006-09-05 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ "Sally Belfrage, American-born Journalist, Dies at 57". AP NEWS. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  11. ^ "Resume - eve pomerance casting". evepomerancecasting. Archived from the original on 22 June 2019. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  12. ^ "An Interview with Moby Pomerance". 19 July 2010. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  13. ^ http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/Nicolas-Belfrage-statement.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  14. ^ "Ancestry® - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records". www.ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
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