Sarah Lyall
Sarah Lyall | |
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| Born | Sarah Lambert Lyall c. 1963 |
| Education | Chapin School; Phillips Exeter Academy; Yale University |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Employer | The New York Times |
| Notable work | The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British |
| Title | Writer at large |
Sarah Lambert Lyall is an American journalist who has long written for The New York Times, currently as a writer at large and including an 18-year period as the paper's London correspondent.
Biography
[edit]Raised in New York City, Lyall attended the Chapin School,[1] and is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, class of 1981,[2] and of Yale University.
Over a career at The New York Times, Lyall has written "for nearly every desk" at the paper. Her current title there is "writer at large," which she explains as "meaning that I’m not assigned to a single department but cover a range of topics."[3] She served as London correspondent for the Times for 18 years, ending in 2013 when she returned to New York City.[4][5]
She has written about prosopagnosia, or face-blindness, a condition from which she suffers.[6]
Lyall married the author and journalist Robert McCrum in 1995, they had two daughters, and they later divorced.[7][5] She remarried in 2021.[8]
Bibliography
[edit]- Lyall, Sarah; The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British New York: W. W. Norton, 2008. ISBN 978-0-393-05846-8
- McCrum, Robert; and Sarah Lyall. My Year Off: Recovering Life After a Stroke. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998. ISBN 0-393-04656-7 ISBN 978-0393046564
References
[edit]- ^ "Alumnae authors who signed books at the 2009 book fair: Sara Lyall, '81, The Anglo Files". Chapin. chapin.edu. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
- ^ "Truths About Journalism and Humanity." Phillips Exeter Academy Lion's Eye, 8 May 2007. Accessed 9 May 2007.
- ^ Seb Patrick, "New York Times London Correspondent Offers American View on the U.K.", BBC America, 17 August 2013.
- ^ a b Susannah Butter and Sarah Lyall, "'Sometimes I felt loud and gauche, like a guest who shows up at a memorial service wearing a Hawaiian shirt': the thoughts of a New York Times correspondent on leaving London", London Evening Standard, 23 August 2013.
- ^ Lyall, Sarah (27 November 2017). "Face Blindness: Sarah Lyall on a Curious Condition". Five Dials. Archived from the original on 28 November 2020. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
- ^ "WEDDINGS; Sarah L. Lyall, Robert McCrum". The New York Times, 14 May 1995, p. 44.
- ^ Sarah Lyall [@sarahlyall33] (20 September 2021). "Everyone should get married at City Hall!". Retrieved 29 April 2025 – via Instagram.
External links
[edit]- Recent and archived news articles by Sarah Lyall of The New York Times
- [1] Jonathan Raban review of Lyall's The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British from The New York Review of Books
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