Discipline: Literature

Nora Sayre

Discipline: Literature
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1983
More: Read Sayre's Obituary in the NYT
Nora Clemens Sayre (1932–2001) 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 specialized in the Cold War and authored books such as Running Time: Films of the Cold War (1982) in which she examined Hollywood movie-making in the 1950s.

Studios

Garland

Nora Sayre worked in the Garland studio.

Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…

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