Robert Lewis Taylor
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Robert Lewis Taylor (September 24, 1912 – September 30, 1998) was an American writer who won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters. His writing has been adapted into a television series, film, and musical.
Education
Born in Carbondale, Illinois, Taylor attended Southern Illinois University for one year.[1] The university now houses his papers.[2] He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor of arts in 1933.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Career
After college, he became a journalist and won awards for reporting.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 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.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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.[5]
Taylor died on September 30, 1998.[6][7]
Personal life
Taylor and his wife lived in Florida.[8]
Bibliography
- 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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External links
- Robert Lewis Taylor Papers, 1947–1968, at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Special Collections Research Center
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