Sarah Lambert Lyall is an American

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who has long written for ''

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'', 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, and is a graduate of

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, class of 1981, and of

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

. 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." She served as London correspondent for the ''Times'' for 18 years, ending in 2013 when she returned to

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. She has written about prosopagnosia, or face-blindness, a condition from which she suffers. Lyall married the author and journalist Robert McCrum in 1995, they had two daughters, and they later divorced."WEDDINGS; Sarah L. Lyall, Robert McCrum"
''The New York Times'', 14 May 1995, p. 44.Susannah Butter and Sarah Lyall

''London Evening Standard'', 23 August 2013. She remarried in 2021.

Bibliography

* Lyall, Sarah; '' The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British'' New York: W. W. Norton, 2008. * McCrum, Robert; and Sarah Lyall. ''My Year Off: Recovering Life After a Stroke.'' New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.

References

External links

Recent and archived news articles by Sarah Lyall of ''The New York Times''

Jonathan Raban review of Lyall's ''The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British'' from ''

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