Sally Belfrage
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Sally Belfrage was an United States
-born British
-based 20th century non-fiction
writer and international journalist. Her writing covered turmoils in Northern Ireland
, the American Civil Rights movement
and her own memoirs about her life.
Her books include The Crack: A Belfast Year (retitled Living with War: A Belfast Year for United States distribution), Un-American Activities: A Memoir of the Fifties, Freedom Summer, and A Room in Moscow. She spent a month studying under the spiritual leader Osho
to gather material for "Flowers of Emptiness: Reflections on an Ashram" (1981).
Born in Hollywood, California, Belfrage became a social activist and world traveller. In the 1950s, both of her parents, Cedric Belfrage
and Molly Castle, were deported from the United States as alleged Communists.
In 1965, she married Bernard Pomerance
. They would have two children. 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
.
She lived out her life in London
, where she died in Middlesex Hospital from breast cancer
in 1994, aged 57.
United States
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-born British
United Kingdom
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-based 20th century non-fiction
Non-fiction
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writer and international journalist. Her writing covered turmoils in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...
, the American Civil Rights movement
Civil rights movement
The civil rights movement was a worldwide political movement for equality before the law occurring between approximately 1950 and 1980. In many situations it took the form of campaigns of civil resistance aimed at achieving change by nonviolent forms of resistance. In some situations it was...
and her own memoirs about her life.
Her books include The Crack: A Belfast Year (retitled Living with War: A Belfast Year for United States distribution), Un-American Activities: A Memoir of the Fifties, Freedom Summer, and A Room in Moscow. She spent a month studying under the spiritual leader Osho
Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)
Osho , born Chandra Mohan Jain , and also known as Acharya Rajneesh from the 1960s onwards, as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh during the 1970s and 1980s and as Osho from 1989, was an Indian mystic, guru, and spiritual teacher who garnered an international following.A professor of philosophy, he travelled...
to gather material for "Flowers of Emptiness: Reflections on an Ashram" (1981).
Born in Hollywood, California, Belfrage became a social activist and world traveller. In the 1950s, both of her parents, Cedric Belfrage
Cedric Belfrage
Cedric Henning Belfrage was a socialist, author, journalist, translator and co-founder of the radical US-weekly newspaper the National Guardian...
and Molly Castle, were deported from the United States as alleged Communists.
In 1965, she married Bernard Pomerance
Bernard Pomerance
Bernard Pomerance is an American playwright and poet whose best known work is the play The Elephant Man. Pomerance was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1940. He studied at the University of Chicago and moved to London in 1968....
. They would have two children. 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
New York Post
The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and is generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continuously as a daily, although – as is the case with most other papers – its publication has been periodically interrupted by labor actions...
.
She lived out her life in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, where she died in Middlesex Hospital from breast cancer
Breast cancer
Breast cancer is cancer originating from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk. Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal carcinomas; those originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas...
in 1994, aged 57.