![]() The books tend to fall in the gray zone between memoir and fiction. Sara moved back to California where for 25 years, she alternated between writing for television and writing books. Her work is collected in the textbook, The Literary Journalists, by Norman Sims. She was one of the group who developed the craft of literary journalism, combining the techniques of fiction with rigorous reporting to bring real events and people to life. Returning to New York, she worked as a free-lance journalist for magazines ranging from Harpers, Esquire and the New York Times to Rolling Stone. Her first job was with the Boston Globe, where she became a national correspondent, covering everything from the election campaigns of Bobby Kennedy and Richard Nixon to the Woodstock Festival and the student strike at Columbia. She went to Berkeley in the Sixties, where the rite of passage was to "get stoned, get laid and get arrested."Īfter Berkeley she headed for New York to attend the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Sara was born in 1943 and grew up in California. ![]()
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