Sally Belfrage

Sally Belfrage (October 4, 1936 – March 14, 1994) was a United States-born British-based 20th century non-fiction writer and international journalist.[1][2] Her writing covered turmoils in Northern Ireland, the American Civil Rights Movement and her own memoirs about her life.[1] According to her obituary in The New York Times, she was 'an intelligent and humorous journalist and critic who ardently searched for the truth'.[3]

Sally Belfrage

Life

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 Sally studied at the Bronx High School of Science and Hunter College,[2] before her parents were deported to London as alleged Communists.[1][2] After her return to England, Sally Belfrage matriculated at the London School of Economics,[1][2] and after graduation she attended 6th World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow, went to Communist China [4] and worked for the Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, in 1957.[2]

Belfrage became a social activist and world traveller.[1] Her books include The Crack: A Belfast Year (1987, retitled Living with War: A Belfast Year for United States distribution),[5] Un-American Activities: A Memoir of the Fifties (1995),[6] Freedom Summer (1999),[7] A Room in Moscow (1966),[8] and Flowers of Emptiness: Reflections on an Ashram.[3] In 1969, Belfrage 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

Sally 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]

Marriage and family

In 1965, she married Bernard Pomerance who was best known for his play, The Elephant Man.[10] They had two children: Eve Pomerance, a casting director in Hollywood, and Moby Pomerance, a playwright.[1][11][12]

Belfrage's brother was Nicolas Belfrage, the wine critic.[13] Her father's brother was Bruce Belfrage, the BBC Newsreader during World War II, and her great uncle was Bryan Powley, the actor.[14]

References
  1. "Obituary: Sally Belfrage". The Independent. 16 March 1994. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  2. Pace, Eric (15 March 1994). "Sally Belfrage Dies; Writer Specializing In Memoirs Was 57". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  3. Belfrage, Sally (22 June 1982). Flowers of emptiness. Women's Press. OCLC 320788280.
  4. "AMERICANS ABROAD: The Mis-Guided Tour". TIME. 26 August 1957. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  5. Belfrage, Sally (22 June 1987). Living in war: a Belfast year. Viking. OCLC 84590094.
  6. Belfrage, Sally (22 June 1995). Un-American activities: a memoir of the fifties. HarperPerennial. ISBN 9780060926267. Retrieved 22 June 2019 – via Open WorldCat.
  7. Belfrage, Sally (22 June 1999). Freedom summer. University Press of Virginia. OCLC 861041871.
  8. Belfrage, Sally (22 June 1966). A room in Moscow. Mayflower-Dell Paperback. OCLC 47783831.
  9. Guide to the Sally Belfrage papers Archived 2006-09-05 at the Wayback Machine
  10. "Sally Belfrage, American-born Journalist, Dies at 57". AP NEWS. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  11. "Resume - eve pomerance casting". evepomerancecasting. Archived from the original on 22 June 2019. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  12. "An Interview with Moby Pomerance". 19 July 2010. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  13. http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/Nicolas-Belfrage-statement.pdf
  14. "Ancestry® - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records". www.ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
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