Robert Lewis Taylor
Robert Lewis Taylor (born September 24, 1912 in Carbondale , Illinois , † September 30, 1998 in Southbury , Connecticut ) was an American writer who received the Pulitzer Prize for novels in 1959 for his novel The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters .
biography
After attending school, he studied for a year at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and then worked for three years as a reporter for the daily newspaper The St. Louis Post-Dispatch before writing for The New Yorker magazine. During the Second World War he did his military service in the US Navy from 1942 to 1946 .
After retiring from active military service, he began his writing career and published his debut novel in 1947 under the title Adrift in a Boneyard , which in 1948 included a collection of his articles ( Doctor, Lawyer, Merchant, Chief ) and a biography of the actor WC Fields with the Title WC Fields: His Follies and Fortunes (1949) followed. After two further novels ( Professor Fodorski and The Running Pianist ), both published in 1950, he published the biography Winston Churchill in 1952 : An Informal Study of Greatness .
This was followed by other novels such as The Bright Sands (1954), Center Ring: The People of the Circus (1956) and The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1958), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for novels in 1959. This novel was later filmed as a television series from 1963 to 1964 , with Kurt Russell in the title role .
Other novels were A Journey to Matecumbe (1961) and Two Roads to Guadalupe (1964) before he published another biography in 1966: Vessel of Wrath: The Life and Times of Carry Nation , an activist of the abstinence movement .
Most recently he published the novels A Roaring in the Wind: Being a History of Alder Gulch, Montana, in its Great and its Shameful Days (1978), Niagara (1980) and The Breach: Kilimanjaro and the Conquest of Self (1981).
Web links and sources
- Robert Lewis Taylor in the nndb (English)
- Robert Lewis Taylor in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- THE NEW YORK TIMES: Robert Lewis Taylor Is Dead, Novelist and Biographer, 88 (obituary, Oct. 4, 1998)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article by Robert Lewis Taylor in The New Yorker ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Taylor, Robert Lewis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Carbondale , Illinois |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 30, 1998 |
| Place of death | Southbury , Connecticut |