Sarah Lyall
{{short description|American journalist (born 1963)}}
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| education = Chapin School; Phillips Exeter Academy; Yale University
| title = Writer at large
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| employer = The New York Times
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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
Raised in New York City, Lyall attended the Chapin School,"[http://www.chapin.edu/page.cfm?p=3639 Alumnae authors who signed books at the 2009 book fair: Sara Lyall, '81, The Anglo Files"]. Chapin. chapin.edu. Retrieved 29 April 2017. and is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, class of 1981,[http://www.exeter.edu/news_and_events/news_events_7532.aspx "Truths About Journalism and Humanity." Phillips Exeter Academy Lion's Eye, 8 May 2007.] Accessed 9 May 2007. 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."{{cite web |title=Sarah Lyall |url=https://www.nytimes.com/by/sarah-lyall |website=nytimes.com |access-date=30 April 2025 |language=en}} She served as London correspondent for the Times for 18 years, ending in 2013 when she returned to New York City.Seb Patrick, [http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2013/08/new-york-times-london-correspondent-offers-an-ex-pats-view-on-the-u-k/ "New York Times London Correspondent Offers American View on the U.K."], BBC America, 17 August 2013.
She has written about prosopagnosia, or face-blindness, a condition from which she suffers.{{cite web |last1=Lyall |first1=Sarah |title=Face Blindness: Sarah Lyall on a Curious Condition |url=https://fivedials.com/reportage/face-blindness/ |website=Five Dials |access-date=31 August 2019 |date=27 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128225322/https://fivedials.com/reportage/face-blindness/ |archive-date=28 November 2020 |url-status=dead }}
Lyall married the author and journalist Robert McCrum in 1995, they had two daughters, and they later divorced.[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/14/style/weddings-sarah-l-lyall-robert-mccrum.html "WEDDINGS; Sarah L. Lyall, Robert McCrum"]. The New York Times, 14 May 1995, p. 44.Susannah Butter and Sarah Lyall, [https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/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-8781695.html {{"'}}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. She remarried in 2021.{{Cite Instagram |author=Sarah Lyall |author-link=Sarah_Lyall |user=sarahlyall33 |postid=CUDMpNZL6PM |date=20 September 2021 |title=Everyone should get married at City Hall! |access-date=29 April 2025 }}
Bibliography
- 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
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External links
- [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/sarah_lyall/index.html Recent and archived news articles by Sarah Lyall of The New York Times]
- [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2008/sep/25/crashing-the-party/] 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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Category:20th-century American journalists
Category:American expatriates in England
Category:Phillips Exeter Academy alumni
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Category:Yale University alumni
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