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Sayles was born on September 28, 1950, in Schenectady, New York, the son of Mary ( née Rausch), a teacher, and Donald John Sayles, a school administrator. [1] Both of Sayles's parents were Catholic and of half-Irish descent. Sayles has referred to himself as a "Catholic atheist". [2]
Retired Schenectady School District administrator, Dr. Donald J. Sayles, 97, died July 5, 2021. He was born in Oneida, NY in 1923, son of the late Henry and AnnaMae Sayles. He grew up in Schenectady's Woodlawn area and was a 1941 graduate of Mont Pleasant High School. He graduated from SUNY Albany in 1948 having left his college studies in January 1943 for 35 months of WWII service in the army ...
John Sayles. Writer: Lone Star. A bright child, John Sayles began reading novels before age 9. A Williams College grad in 1972, he shunned a corporate career to work various blue-collar jobs, moving to east Boston to take a factory job. He wrote stories and submitted them to various magazines, and the Atlantic Monthly gave him the idea of publishing them in a novel--thus "Pride of the Bimbos ...
- September 28, 1950
Jan 15, 2024 · With the incongruous mix of satirical ferocity and disarming geniality mastered by authors like Kurt Vonnegut, Jr and Tom Robbins, Sayles’ challenged the tribalism and machismo that animate this country’s sports culture. From the beginning, he had his finger, gently, on the pulse of our societal demons. Advertisement.
Retired Schenectady School District administrator, Dr. Donald J. Sayles, 97, died July 5, 2021. He was born in Oneida, NY in 1923, son of the late Henry and AnnaMae Sayles. He grew up in Schenectady's Woodlawn area and was a 1941 graduate of Mont Pleasant High School. He graduated from SUNY Albany in 1948 having left his college studies in January 1943 for 35 months of WWII service in the army ...
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John Sayles. Writer: Lone Star. A bright child, John Sayles began reading novels before age 9. A Williams College grad in 1972, he shunned a corporate career to work various blue-collar jobs, moving to east Boston to take a factory job.
Feb 15, 2024 · A Conversation with John Sayles (LONE STAR) John Sayles is one of the great American filmmakers. Graduating from Williams college in 1972, Sayles moved to east Boston to work a factory job. During that time he wrote short stories, submitting them to various magazines. These short stories would be compiled into a full novel in 1975 called Pride ...
