Robert Lewis Taylor
Robert Lewis Taylor ( * September 24, 1912 in Carbondale, Illinois, † 30 September 1998 in Southbury, Connecticut) was an American writer who received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters 1959.
Biography
After school he spent a year studying at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and was then first three years as a reporter for the daily newspaper, The St. Louis Post -Dispatch, before he wrote for the New Yorker magazine. During the Second World War he served from 1942 to 1946 his military service in the U.S. Navy.
After his retirement from active military service, he began his writing career and published in 1947 his first novel under the title Adrift in a Boneyard, the 1948 collection of his articles (Doctor, Lawyer, Merchant, Chief ), as well as a biography of the actor WC Fields, entitled WC Fields: His Follies and Fortunes (1949 ) was followed. After two more novels (Professor Fodorski and The Running Pianist ), both published in 1950, he published in 1952 the biography Winston Churchill: 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 1959 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. This novel was later 1963-1964 as a television series filmed with Kurt Russell in the title role.
Other novels were A Journey to Matecumbe (1961) and Two Roads to Guadalupe ( 1964), before 1966 another biography published: Vessel of Wrath: The Life and Times of Carry Nation, an activist in the temperance 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).
External links and sources
- Robert Lewis Taylor in the Notable Names Database (English)
- Robert Lewis Taylor at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- THE NEW YORK TIMES: Robert Lewis Taylor Is Dead, novelist and biographer, 88 ( obituary, October 4, 1998 )