Nora Clemens Sayre (September 20, 1932 – August 8, 2001) was an American film critic and essayist.
[2] Born in Hamilton, Bermuda, her father was Joel Sayre of The New Yorker; family friends were A. J. Liebling and Edmund Wilson.
[6] After graduation, she spent five years in England; and whenever she felt homesick she would pay a call on screenwriter Donald Ogden Stewart, a friend of the family who had scripted some of Hollywood’s most celebrated films.
Sayre noted "after a dose of Davenport, one was all the more responsive to words—either to classical or contemporary prose, or to the random eloquence of the street... his conversation made one immediately want to go home and write.
The Nora Sayre Endowed Residency for Nonfiction was created at Yaddo, an artists' community in Saratoga Springs, New York, to support her literary legacy.