Sarah Lambert Lyall is an American journalist who has worked for The New York Times, including an 18-year period as the title's London correspondent.

Biography

Raised in New York City, Lyall attended the Chapin School, and is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, class of 1981 and of Yale University. Lyall married the author and journalist Robert McCrum in 1995. After 18 years as London correspondent for The New York Times, Lyall returned to New York with the couple's daughters in 2013; Lyall and McCrum have a transatlantic relationship. She has written about prosopagnosia, or face-blindness, a condition from which she suffers.