Robert Lewis Taylor

Robert Lewis Taylor (September 24, 1912 – September 30, 1998) was an American writer and winner of the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Education

Born in Carbondale, Illinois, Taylor attended Southern Illinois University for one year.^[1] The university now houses his papers.^[2] He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor of arts in 1933.^{[citation needed]}

Career

After college, he became a journalist and won awards for reporting.^{[citation needed]} In 1939, he became a writer for The New Yorker magazine, contributing biographical sketches. His work also appeared in The Saturday Evening Post and Reader's Digest.^{[citation needed]}

From 1942 to 1946, Taylor served in the United States Navy during World War II. During his service, he wrote numerous stories and Adrift in a Boneyard, an extended fiction about survivors of a disaster. In 1949,The Saturday Evening Post commissioned a series of biographical sketches of W. C. Fields. He published them together as W. C. Fields: His Follies and Fortunes. Taylor continued to write fiction and biographies, including one on Winston Churchill.^{[citation needed]}

Taylor's 1958 novel

Taylor died on September 30, 1998.[6]^[7]

Bibliography

• Adrift in a Boneyard (1948)
• Doctor, Lawyer, Merchant, Chief (1948)
• W. C. Fields: His Follies and Fortunes (1949)
• Professor Fodorski (1950)
• The Running Pianist (1950)
• Winston Churchill: An Informal Study of Greatness (1952)
• The Bright Sands (1954)
• The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1958)
• Center Ring (1960)
• A Journey to Matecumbe (1961)
• Two Roads to Guadalupe (1964)
• Vessel of Wrath: The Life and Times of Carry Nation (1966)
• A Roaring in the Wind (1978)
• Niagara (1980)

References

1. ISBN 978-3-1109-7211-5
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2. ISBN 978-0-2531-0833-3
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3. ^ "How Books Shaped The American National Identity". WBUR-FM. August 14, 2012. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
4. ^ Taylor, Drew (November 13, 2019). "15 Obscure Movies and TV Shows on Disney+ You Need to Check Out". Syfy Wire. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
5. ^ "All American Broadway @ Winter Garden Theatre - Tickets and Discounts". Playbill. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
6. ISSN 0362-4331
   . Retrieved September 21, 2021.
7. ISSN 0190-8286
   . Retrieved September 21, 2021.

External links

• Robert Lewis Taylor Papers, 1947–1968, at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Special Collections Research Center

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