Description: Hizzoner the Mayor (1933) Sayre, Joel Published by The John Day Company, NY, Joel Sayre Born December 13, 1900 Marion, Indiana, U.S. Died September 9, 1979 (aged 78) Taftsville, Vermont, U.S. Occupation screenwriter Joel Grover Sayre, Jr (December 13, 1900 – September 9, 1979) was an American novelist, war reporter, and screenwriter born in Marion, Indiana. Sayre was the son of businessman Joel Grover Sayre and Nora Clemens Sayre, a photographer and interior decorator. He was raised at Columbus, Ohio, and educated at the Columbus Academy in Ohio, and a private school in Cleveland. A childhood friend was James Thurber, later a distinguished writer. Sayre failed to join the American army aged sixteen, but with a falsified birth certificate succeeded in joining the Canadian army, being subsequently sent to Siberia with its Expeditionary Force. On his return, he read literature at Exeter College, Oxford, graduating BA in 1922,[3] and briefly studied medicine at Heidelberg University in Germany. Sayre was the chief screenwriter for the 1939 film Gunga Din. His novels included Hizzoner the Mayor and Rackety Rax, which the New York Times called "incredibly funny". Personal life In 1930, Sayre married Gertrude Lynahan, a reporter for The World. She later worked in journalism as a fashion editor.[8][9] Their daughter was the film critic and essayist, Nora Sayre. He died on September 9, 1979, due to heart failure
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Author: Sayre, Joel
Publisher: The John Day Company
Topic: Literature
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 1933
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