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Joel Sayre papers

Title
  1. Joel Sayre papers, 1918-1979 (bulk 1950s-1970s).
Supplementary content
  1. Finding Aid
Author
  1. Sayre, Joel, 1900-

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Details

Additional authors
  1. Farr, Finis.
  2. Johnson, Nunnally.
  3. Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956.
Description
  1. 5.4 linear feet (11 boxes).
Summary
  1. The papers consist of correspondence received from family, friends and colleagues, among them Finis Farr; letters sent to his daughter Nora Sayre, to his wife, Gertrude Lynahan Sayre, to Nunnally Johnson, Jeannette Lowe and others; and letters received by Gertrude Lynahan Sayre from others, including one letter from H.L. Mencken.
Subject
  1. Sportswriters > United States
  2. Screenwriters > United States
  3. Journalists > United States
  4. Photograph albums
  5. Photographs
  6. Scrapbooks
  7. Diaries
  8. Soviet Union > History > Allied intervention, 1918-1920
  9. Columbus (Ohio) > Social life and customs > 20th century
  10. World War, 1939-1945 > Journalists
  11. Motion picture industry > United States
  12. Authors, American > 20th century
  13. New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)
  14. Faulkner, William, 1897-1962
  15. Thurber, James, 1894-1961
Genre/Form
  1. Diaries.
  2. Scrapbooks.
  3. Photographs.
  4. Photograph albums.
Call number
  1. MssCol 6135
Access (note)
  1. Restricted access;
Location of other archival materials (note)
  1. Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.
Biography (note)
  1. Joel G. Sayre (1900-1979) was a journalist, author, screenwriter, and foreign correspondent.
Indexes/finding aids (note)
  1. Finding aid available in repository and on internet.
Author
  1. Sayre, Joel, 1900-
Title
  1. Joel Sayre papers, 1918-1979 (bulk 1950s-1970s).
Restricted access
  1. Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
Biography
  1. Joel G. Sayre (1900-1979) was a journalist, author, screenwriter, and foreign correspondent. Raised and educated in Ohio, he served in the Canadian Army's Siberian Expeditionary Force during World War I and later studied at Oxford and Heidelberg. Returning to the United States, he covered sports and crime stories for newspapers in several cities, including Boston and New York, and wrote for the New Yorker. He wrote two successful novels and worked in Hollywood as a screenwriter on several films, including Gunga Din, and collaborated with William Faulkner on The Road to Glory. As a correspondent for the New Yorker during World War II, he covered the Persian Gulf Command, the Teheran Conference and the closing months of the war in Germany. A journalist and screenwriter in the post-war years, he taught at the Annenberg School of Communications from 1960-1971. He married Gertrude Lynahan Sayre, who died in 1960; their daughter, Nora Sayre, was an author and cultural historian. Sayre died on September 9, 1979.
Indexes
  1. Finding aid available in repository and on internet. http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/ead/human/msssayrj/
Location of other archival materials
  1. Joel Sayre papers were originally part of the Nora Sayre papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.
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  1. NYPL Digital Collections
  2. Finding Aid
Occupation
  1. Journalists United States.
  2. Screenwriters United States.
  3. Sportswriters United States.
Added author
  1. Farr, Finis.
  2. Johnson, Nunnally.
  3. Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956.
Research call number
  1. MssCol 6135
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