Sarah Lambert Lyall is an American

journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...

who has worked for ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...

'', including an 18-year period as the title's London correspondent.

Biography

Raised in New York City, Lyall attended the

Chapin School Chapin School is an all-girls independent day school in New York City's Upper East Side neighborhood in Manhattan. History Maria Bowen Chapin opened "Miss Chapin's School for Girls and Kindergarten for Boys and Girls" in 1901. The school origi ...

and is a graduate of

Phillips Exeter Academy (not for oneself) la, Finis Origine Pendet (The End Depends Upon the Beginning) gr, Χάριτι Θεοῦ (By the Grace of God) , location = 20 Main Street , city = Exeter, New Hampshire , zipcode ...

, class of 1981 and of

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

. Lyall married the author and journalist

Robert McCrum John Robert McCrum (born 7 July 1953) is an English writer and editor, holding senior editorial positions at Faber and Faber over seventeen years, followed by a long association with ''The Observer''. Early life The son of Michael William McC ...

in 1995. After 18 years as London correspondent for ''The New York Times'', Lyall returned to New York with the couple's daughters in 2013; Lyall and McCrum have a transatlantic relationship.Susannah Butter and Sarah Lyal
"'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 has written about

Prosopagnosia Prosopagnosia (from Greek ''prósōpon'', meaning "face", and ''agnōsía'', meaning "non-knowledge"), also called face blindness, (" illChoisser had even begun tpopularizea name for the condition: face blindness.") is a cognitive disorder of fa ...

, or face-blindness, a condition from which she suffers.

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 Jonathan Raban (born 14 June 1942, Hempton, Norfolk, England) is a British travel writer, critic, and novelist. He has received several awards, such as the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Award, ...

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

The New York Review of Books ''The New York Review of Books'' (or ''NYREV'' or ''NYRB'') is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs. Published in New York City, it is inspired by the idea that the discussion of i ...

'' 1960s births Living people American expatriates in England Phillips Exeter Academy alumni Place of birth missing (living people) The New York Times writers Yale University alumni 20th-century American journalists {{US-journalist-1960s-stub