Occupation Writer, film critic Parents Joel Sayre | Role Essayist Name Nora Sayre | |
Full Name Nora Clemens Sayre Born September 20, 1932 Hamilton, Bermuda Died August 8, 2001, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States Books Running Time: Films of the Cold War, Sixties going on seventies, Previous convictions, On the Wing Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Nominations National Book Award for Contemporary Affairs | ||
Education Radcliffe College (1954) | ||
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 at Columbia University for many years. 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.
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Personal life
Born in Hamilton, Bermuda, her father was Joel Sayre of The New Yorker; and her childhood friends were A. J. Liebling and Edmund Wilson.
She attended Friends Seminary, and was a graduate of Radcliffe College.
She married Robert Neild in 1957 but the marriage was dissolved four years later. She died 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.