Michael Sayers

Michael Sayers
Sayers in 2006
Born(1911-12-19)19 December 1911
Dublin, Ireland
Died2 May 2010(2010-05-02) (aged 98)
New York City, U.S.
Occupation
  • Poet
  • writer
  • playwright
  • screenwriter
LanguageEnglish
NationalityIreland, US
Alma materTrinity College Dublin
Period1930s–2000s
Notable worksThe Great Conspiracy: The Secret War Against Soviet Russia (1946)
SpouseMentana Galleani (first), Sylvia Thumin (second)
Children3 children

Michael Sayers (19 December 1911 – 2 May 2010) was an Irish poet, playwright, writer and journalist whose books co-authored with Albert E. Kahn made him a target of US blacklisting during the McCarthyism era of the 1950s. He wrote scripts for TV in the 1950s, and as a screenwriter in the 1960s for movies including James Bond film Casino Royale.