About Sara Dylan
Sara Dylan (born Shirley Marlin Noznisky; October 28, 1939) is an American former actress and model who was the first wife of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. In 1959, Noznisky married magazine photographer Hans Lownds; during their marriage, she was known as Sara Lownds. She was married to Bob Dylan from 1965 until their 1977 divorce; they had four children together, and he adopted her daughter from her first marriage. Their marriage has been described by music writers and biographers as the inspiration for many songs Dylan created during the 1960s and '70s, and the 1975 album Blood on the Tracks has been described by many as Dylan's account of their disintegrating marriage. Sara Dylan played the role of Clara in the 1978 film Renaldo and Clara, directed by Dylan, and the film was described by a Dylan biographer as "in part a tribute to his wife". Lownds persuaded her to change her name to Sara because his first wife, also named Shirley, had left him and he did not want to be reminded of his previous marriage. Sara had a modeling career and appeared in Harper's Bazaar as the 'lovely luscious Sara Lownds', then became pregnant. Lownds and Dylan became romantically involved in 1964; soon afterwards, they moved into separate rooms in New York's Hotel Chelsea to be near one another.
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