Nora Sayre

Nora Clemens Sayre (20 September 1932 in Hamilton, Bermuda - 8 August 2001 in New York City) 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 at Columbia University for many years.^[1] She specialised in the Cold War and authored books such as Running Time: Films of the Cold War (1982, Dial Press) in which she examined Hollywood movie-making in the 1950s.^[2]

Personal life

Her father was Joel Sayre of The New Yorker; and her childhood friends were A. J. Liebling and Edmund Wilson.^[1]

She attended Friends Seminary,^[3] and was a graduate of Radcliffe College.^[4]

She married Robert Neild in 1957 but the marriage was dissolved four years later.^[1]

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.^[5]

Partial works

• (1996), Sixties going on seventies

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Nora Sayre obituary". The Independent. 7 September, 2001. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/nora-sayre-729389.html. Retrieved 15 January, 2011. 
2. ^ Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher (9 August, 2001). "Nora Sayre, Film Critic And Essayist, Dies at 68". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/09/movies/nora-sayre-film-critic-and-essayist-dies-at-68.html. Retrieved 15 January, 2011. 
3. ^ White, Elwyn Brooks; Guth, Dorothy Lobrano (16 November 2006). Letters of E.B. White. HarperCollins. pp. 158–. ISBN 9780060757083. http://books.google.com/books?id=Qu78fN3GTZYC&pg=PA158. Retrieved 16 January 2011. 
4. ^ Rathbone, Belinda (2000). Walker Evans: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 228–. ISBN 9780618056729. http://books.google.com/books?id=zIfumzouw3UC&pg=PA228. Retrieved 16 January 2011. 
5. ^ Weiner, Tim (20 May 2008). Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. Random House, Inc.. pp. 603–. ISBN 9780307389008. http://books.google.com/books?id=vf9ZJx8WkjQC&pg=PA603. Retrieved 16 January 2011. 

External links

• New York Times obituary
• Obituary

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Name	Sayre, Nora
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Date of birth	20 September 1932
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Date of death	8 August 2001
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