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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.

Raised in New York City, Lyall attended the Chapin School,^[1] and is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, class of 1981^[2] and of Yale University. Lyall married the author and journalist Robert McCrum in 1995.^[3]

After 18 years as London correspondent for The New York Times,^[4] Lyall returned to New York with the couple's daughters in 2013; Lyall and McCrum have a transatlantic relationship.^[5]

She has written about prosopagnosia, or face-blindness, a condition from which she suffers.^[6]

• Lyall, Sarah; The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British New York: W. W. Norton, 2008. ISBN 978-0-393-05846-8
• McCrum, Robert; and Sarah Lyall. My Year Off: Recovering Life After a Stroke. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998. ISBN 0-393-04656-7 ISBN 978-0393046564

• Recent and archived news articles by Sarah Lyall of The New York Times
• [1] Jonathan Raban review of Lyall's The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British from The New York Review of Books