Sally Belfrage

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Sally Belfrage (October 4, 1936 - March 1994) was a writer of 20th century non-fiction and an international journalist. Her writing covered the turmoil in Ireland, the U.S. Civil Rights movement and her own memoirs about her life as the daughter of Cedric Belfrage and Molly Castle. Her books include The Crack: A Belfast Year (retitled Living with War: A Belfast Year for the American market), 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 1965, she married Bernard Pomerance. They would have two children. In 1969, Belfrage was a signer of 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, and died of brain and lung cancer in 1994.

• Guide to the Sally Belfrage papers
• New York Times obituary