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American writer
Robert Lewis Taylor
(September 24, 1912 ? September 30, 1998) was an American writer and winner of the 1959
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
.
Education
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Born in
Carbondale, Illinois
, Taylor attended
Southern Illinois University
for one year.
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The university now houses his papers.
[2]
He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor of arts in 1933.
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Career
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After college, he became a journalist and won awards for reporting.
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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
.
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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
.
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Taylor's 1958 novel
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
, about a 14-year-old and his father in the
California Gold Rush
, won the Pulitzer Prize and was purchased for a film, but eventually became a television series, instead.
[3]
A Journey to Matecumbe
was adapted in 1976 as the Disney movie
Treasure of Matecumbe
.
[4]
His novel
Professor Fodorski
served as the basis for the 1962 musical
All American
.
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Taylor died on September 30, 1998.
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Bibliography
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- 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
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- ^
Fischer, Heinz D. (2012).
Novel / Fiction Awards 1917-1994
.
Walter de Gruyter
p. 159.
ISBN
978-3-1109-7211-5
.
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Grace, Fran (2001).
Carry A. Nation: Retelling the Life
.
Indiana University Press
p. 264.
ISBN
978-0-2531-0833-3
.
- ^
"How Books Shaped The American National Identity"
.
WBUR-FM
. August 14, 2012
. Retrieved
February 22,
2020
.
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Taylor, Drew (November 13, 2019).
"15 Obscure Movies and TV Shows on Disney+ You Need to Check Out"
.
Syfy Wire
. Retrieved
February 22,
2020
.
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"All American Broadway @ Winter Garden Theatre - Tickets and Discounts"
.
Playbill
. Retrieved
September 21,
2021
.
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Stewart, Barbara (October 4, 1998).
"Robert Lewis Taylor Is Dead, Novelist and Biographer, 88"
.
The New York Times
.
ISSN
0362-4331
. Retrieved
September 21,
2021
.
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Pearson, Richard (October 5, 1998).
"ROBERT LEWIS TAYLOR DIES"
.
Washington Post
.
ISSN
0190-8286
. Retrieved
September 21,
2021
.
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