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{{short description|American writer and sideshow historian}}
[[File:Jamestaylor press photo small.jpg|thumb|300px|James Taylor at the Palace of Wonders<br />(photo courtesy of James Taylor and ''Shocked and Amazed!)'']]
'''James Taylor''' is an American writer, publisher, and [[sideshow]] historian. He co-founded Dolphin-Moon Press in 1973 and published books based on his American sideshow history magazine, both titled as volumes of [[Shocked and Amazed!|''Shocked and Amazed!'']], from 1997–2002.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ISBN Search - James Taylor shocked and amazed |url=https://isbnsearch.org/search?s=James+Taylor+shocked+and+amazed |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=isbnsearch.org}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Taylor is a graduate of the [[University of Maryland, College Park]] and the [[Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars]].

==Career==
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Taylor was literary chairman to the Baltimore mayor's advisory committee on art and culture and was a member of the Maryland governor's panel choosing the state's poet laureate.

In 1999, he co-founded, with Dick Horne, the [[American Dime Museum]] in [[Baltimore]], a museum that was part Victorian recreation and part homage to circus, carnival and dime museum culture. Taylor dissolved his partnership with Horne in 2003 and began work on re-establishing his own museum attractions in [[Washington, D.C.]], inside of the [[Palace of Wonders]], which opened in 2006.

Taylor has served as historical consultant to television productions in his capacity as [[Variety show|variety arts]] historian.

He has three books of poetry and fiction to date: Tigerwolves, Tricks of Vision, and Artifacture. His ''[[Shocked and Amazed!]] - On & Off the Midway'' series, published through Dolphin-Moon since 1995, is the world's only journal devoted to novelty and variety exhibition and life in the sideshow; in 2002, Lyons/Globe Pequot Press published a ''“Best Of” Shocked and Amazed!''

He has worked for the state government of Maryland since 1975.{{Citation needed|date=October 2013}}

For 25 years, beginning in 1984, he was an associate professor of English at the [[Dundalk, Maryland]], campus of the [[Community College of Baltimore County]].

==References==
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* [http://www.jhu.edu/~jhumag/0498web/show.html "What's Weird Here?"], ''Johns Hopkins Magazine'', April 1998.

==External links==
* [http://www.palaceofwonders.com Palace of Wonders]
* [http://www.shockedandamazed.com Shocked and Amazed - On & Off the Midway]
* [http://www.showhistory.com Showhistory.com]
* [http://www.sideshow-art.com Sideshow-art.com]
* [http://www.sideshowworld.com Sideshowworld.com]

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