Kate Taylor (Canadian writer)

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Katherine Mary Taylor (born 1962) is a Canadian critic and novelist, a cultural journalist at The Globe and Mail newspaper. She is author of three novels, Mme Proust and the Kosher Kitchen, A Man in Uniform and Serial Monogamy.

Biography

Katherine Mary Taylor as born in 1962 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.[1] The child of a Canadian diplomat, Taylor was born in France, and grew up both in Europe and in Ottawa. She attended Glebe Collegiate Institute in Ottawa, and studied history and art history at the University of Toronto. She has an M.A. in journalism from the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. After working at the

Hamilton Spectator, Taylor joined the copy desk of The Globe and Mail in 1989. She moved into the arts section in 1991 and was appointed theatre critic in 1995. She served in that role until 2003, winning two Nathan Cohen Awards for her reviews.[2]

In 2009, she was awarded the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy Journalism to study Canadian cultural sovereignty in the digital age. The results were published in the Toronto Star in September 2010.[3]

Fiction

Taylor's first novel, Mme Proust and the Kosher Kitchen, combines the stories of three women. One is Jeanne Proust, mother of the French novelist

Canadian Jewish Book Award for fiction.[4]

Taylor's second novel, A Man in Uniform, is a fictional detective story set in Paris at the end of the 19th century and based on the actual

Dreyfus Affair. It was published in August, 2010 by Doubleday Canada [5] and by Crown Publishing in the United States in January, 2011.[6]

Her third novel, Serial Monogamy, was published by Doubleday Canada in 2016.[7]

References

  1. ^ Canadian Who's Who. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2009. p. 1283.
  2. ^ "Kate Taylor". The Globe and Mail.
  3. ^ "Atkinson Principles - The Star". Toronto Star. 20 November 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
  4. ^ "Mme Proust and the Kosher Kitchen by Kate Taylor". Retrieved 7 May 2018.
  5. ^ "RandomHouse.ca | Books | A Man in Uniform by Kate Taylor". Archived from the original on 24 July 2010. Retrieved 7 November 2010.
  6. ^ "Penguin Random House". Archived from the original on 29 January 2019. Retrieved 7 November 2010.
  7. ^ "Serial Monogamy by Kate Taylor". Penguin Random House. Retrieved 7 May 2018.

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