Sarah Lyall

Summary

Sarah Lambert Lyall is an American journalist who has worked for The New York Times, including an 18-year period as the title's London correspondent.

Sarah Lyall
Born
Sarah Lambert Lyall

c. 1963
EducationChapin School; Phillips Exeter Academy; Yale University
OccupationJournalist
Notable creditThe New York Times
TitleMs. Sarah Lyall
SpouseRobert McCrum
ChildrenAlice and Isobel McCrum

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. Lyall married the author and journalist Robert McCrum in 1995.[3]

After 18 years as London correspondent for The New York Times,[4] Lyall returned to New York with the couple's daughters in 2013; Lyall and McCrum have a transatlantic relationship.[5]

She has written about prosopagnosia, or face-blindness, a condition from which she suffers.[6]

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

  1. ^ "Alumnae authors who signed books at the 2009 book fair: Sara Lyall, '81, The Anglo Files". Chapin. chapin.edu. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  2. ^ "Truths About Journalism and Humanity." Phillips Exeter Academy Lion's Eye, 8 May 2007. Accessed 9 May 2007.
  3. ^ "WEDDINGS; Sarah L. Lyall, Robert McCrum". The New York Times, 14 May 1995, p. 44.
  4. ^ Seb Patrick, "New York Times London Correspondent Offers American View on the U.K.", BBC America, 17 August 2013.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Lyall, Sarah (27 November 2017). "Face Blindness: Sarah Lyall on a Curious Condition". Five Dials. Retrieved 31 August 2019.

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