DJ Taylor
David John Taylor (born August 22, 1960 in Norwich ) is a British writer and literary historian.
Life
David John Taylor attended school in Norwich . He studied history at St John's College , Oxford . Taylor was a member of the Norwich Writers' Circle.
Taylor writes reviews for The Daily Telegraph , The Guardian , The Independent , New Statesman , The Spectator , Private Eye, and Literary Review .
His novel Trespass was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1998 and the novel Derby Day was nominated for the Man Booker Prize in 2011 . In 1999 the Italian translation of the novel English Settlement received the Grinzane Cavour Prize . He received the 2003 Whitbread Biography Award for his biography of George Orwell . He received a shared Sidewise Award in 2013 for the novel The Windsor Faction .
Taylor is married to the writer Rachel Hore and they live in Norwich with their three children.
Works (selection)
- Great Eastern Land: from the notebooks of David Castell . Novel. London: Secker & Warburg, 1986
- A Vain Conceit: British Fiction in the 1980s . London: Bloomsbury, 1989
- with Marcus Berkmann : Other People: Portraits From The 90's . 1990
- Real life . Novel. London: Chatto & Windus, 1992
- After the War: The Novel and England since 1945 . London: Chatto & Windus, 1993
- English settlement . Novel. London: Chatto & Windus, 1996
- After bathing at Baxter’s . Short stories. 1997
- Trespass . Novel. London: Duckworth, 1998
- Thackeray: the life of a literary man . Biography. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1999
- The Comedy Man . Novel. London: Duck Editions, 2001
- Orwell: the life . Biography. London: Vintage, 2003
- Kept: a Victorian mystery . Novel. London: Vintage, 2006
- On The Corinthian Spirit: The Decline of Amateurism In Sport . 2006
- Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940 . London: Chatto & Windus, 2007
- Ask Alice . Novel. London: Chatto & Windus, 2009
- At the Chime of a City Clock . Novel. London: Constable, 2010
- Derby Day . Novel. London: Vintage, 2011
- Secondhand Daylight . Novel. Windsor, 2013
- The Windsor Faction . Novel. London: Chatto & Windus, 2013
- Wrote for Luck . Galley Beggar Press, 2015
- The Prose Factory: Literary Life in England Since 1918 . London: Chatto & Windus, 2016
literature
- Michèle Roberts : Men of letters , review, in: Financial Times , January 9, 2016, p. 9
Web links
- Literature by and about DJ Taylor in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- DJ Taylor , website (s)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Taylor, DJ |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Taylor, David John (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer and literary historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 22nd August 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Norwich |