Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: A mụrụ Sally Mary Caroline Belfrage na Hollywood, California, n'abalị anọ nke ọnwa Ọktoba afọ 1936. Nne na nna ya, Cedric Belfrage na Molly Castle, mechara kwaga New York ebe Sally gụrụ akwụkwọ na Bronx High School of Science na Hunter College, tupu a chụga ndị mụrụ ya na London dị ka ndị Kọmunist. Mgbe ọ laghachiri England, Sally Belfrage gụrụ akwụkwọ na London School of Economics, mgbe ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ, ọ gara
6th World Festival of Youth and Students na Moscow, gara Communist China wee rụọ ọrụ maka Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, na 1957.