Nora Sayre
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| Born | Nora Clemens Sayre September 20, 1932 |
| Died | August 8, 2001(aged 68) New York City |
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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 forThe New York Timesin the 1970s, and, from 1981, a writing teacher for many years atColumbia University.[1]She specialised in theCold Warand authored books such asRunning Time: Films of the Cold War(1982) in which she examined Hollywood movie-making in the 1950s.[2]
Personal life[edit]
Born inHamilton, Bermuda,her father wasJoel SayreofThe New Yorker;family friends wereA. J. LieblingandEdmund Wilson.[1][3][4]
She attendedFriends Seminary,[5]and was a graduate ofRadcliffe College.[6]
A mentor was the English critic and book reviewerJohn Davenport;he had become acquainted with the Sayre family whilst working as a screenwriter atMGM,when she was a child, and would later visit the adult Sayre with suggestions of things she should read and about which she should write. Sayre noted "after a dose of Davenport, one was all the more responsive to words—either to classical or contemporary prose, or to the random eloquence of the street... his conversation made one immediately want to go home and write. Hence he served as an igniter: He gave one momentum."[7]
She married the economistRobert Neildin 1957 but the marriage was dissolved four years later.[1]She died in 2001, at the age of 68, in New York City.
Legacy[edit]
The Nora Sayre Endowed Residency for Nonfiction was created atYaddo,an artists' community inSaratoga Springs, New York,to support her literary legacy.[8]
Bibliography[edit]
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- (1973)Sixties Going on Seventies(Arbor House;reprinted 1996,Rutgers University Press)ISBN9780385276214
- (1982)Running time: Films of the Cold War(Bantam Doubleday DellPublishing Group)ISBN9780385276214
- (2001) On the Wing: A Young American Abroad (Counterpoint)ISBN9781582431444
References[edit]
- ^abc"Nora Sayre obituary".The Independent.September 7, 2001.Archivedfrom the original on June 21, 2022.RetrievedJanuary 15,2011.
- ^Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher (August 9, 2001)."Nora Sayre, Film Critic And Essayist, Dies at 68".The New York Times.RetrievedJanuary 15,2011.
- ^"N. Sayre; Essayist on Cold War Era".Los Angeles Times.August 11, 2001.
- ^"Obituary: Nora Sayre".TheGuardian.com.August 21, 2001.
- ^White, Elwyn Brooks; Guth, Dorothy Lobrano (November 16, 2006).Letters of E.B. White.HarperCollins. pp. 158–.ISBN978-0-06-075708-3.RetrievedJanuary 16,2011.
- ^Rathbone, Belinda (2000).Walker Evans: A Biography.Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 228–.ISBN978-0-618-05672-9.RetrievedJanuary 16,2011.
- ^Sayre, Nora (April 10, 1977)."John Davenport Remembered".The New York Times.p. 6.
- ^Weiner, Tim (May 20, 2008).Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA.Random House, Inc. pp. 603–.ISBN978-0-307-38900-8.RetrievedJanuary 16,2011.
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