Sally Belfrage
Sally Belfrage (October 4, 1936 – March 14, 1994) was an American-born, British-based 20th century non-fiction writer and international journalist.[1][2] Her writing covered The Troubles in Northern Ireland, and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.[1] Her 1981 memoir Flowers of Emptiness was praised as the work of "an intelligent and humorous journalist and critic who ardently searched for the truth".[2][3]
Life and work
[edit]Sally Mary Caroline Belfrage was born in Hollywood, California, on 4 October 1936.[2] Her parents, Cedric Belfrage and Molly Castle, later moved to New York where she studied at the Bronx High School of Science and Hunter College.[2] She returned to England when her parents were deported to London as alleged Communists.[1][2] After her return, she matriculated at the London School of Economics.[1][2] Following graduation, she became a social activist and world traveller.[1] She attended the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow, visited China,[4] and worked in 1957 for the Foreign Languages Publishing House in Moscow.[2]
Her books included A Room in Moscow (1958),[5] Flowers of Emptiness: Reflections on an Ashram (1981),[3] The Crack: A Belfast Year (1987, retitled Living with War: A Belfast Year for United States distribution),[6] Un-American Activities: A Memoir of the Fifties (1995),[7] and Freedom Summer (1999).[8] In 1969, she signed a war tax resistance vow, along with 447 other American writers and editors. It was published in the January 30, 1969 edition of the New York Post.[1]
Death
[edit]Belfrage lived most of her life in London, where she died at Middlesex Hospital from lung cancer (adenocarcinoma) in 1994, at age 57.[2][9]
Personal life
[edit]Marriage and family
[edit]In 1965, Belfrage married Bernard Pomerance who was best known for his play, The Elephant Man.[10] They had two children: Eve Pomerance, a casting director, screenwriter and producer in Hollywood, and Moby Pomerance, a playwright and screenwriter.[1][11][12]
Her brother was Nicolas Belfrage, a Master of Wine and wine critic.[13] Her uncle was Bruce Belfrage, a BBC newsreader during World War II, and her great-uncle was Bryan Powley, an actor.[14]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Obituary: Sally Belfrage". The Independent. 16 March 1994. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Pace, Eric (15 March 1994). "Sally Belfrage Dies; Writer Specializing In Memoirs Was 57". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
- 1 2 Belfrage, Sally (22 June 1982) [1981]. Flowers of Emptiness (2nd ed.). Women's Press. OCLC 320788280.
- ↑ "AMERICANS ABROAD: The Mis-Guided Tour". TIME. 26 August 1957. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
- ↑ Belfrage, Sally (22 June 1966) [1958]. A Room in Moscow. Mayflower-Dell Paperback. OCLC 47783831.
- ↑ Belfrage, Sally (22 June 1987). Living in War: A Belfast Year. Viking. OCLC 84590094.
- ↑ Belfrage, Sally (22 June 1995). Un-American Activities: A Memoir of the Fifties. HarperPerennial. ISBN 9780060926267. Retrieved 22 June 2019 – via Open WorldCat.
- ↑ Belfrage, Sally (22 June 1999). Freedom Summer. University Press of Virginia. OCLC 861041871.
- ↑ Guide to the Sally Belfrage papers Archived 5 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Sally Belfrage, American-born Journalist, Dies at 57". AP NEWS. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
- ↑ "Resume - Eve Pomerance Casting". evepomerancecasting. Archived from the original on 22 June 2019. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
- ↑ "An Interview with Moby Pomerance". 19 July 2010. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
- ↑ "Statement from Nicolas Belfrage" (PDF). BBC.
- ↑ "Ancestry® - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records". www.ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
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