| 词条 | Peter Taylor (writer) |
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Matthew Hillsman Taylor, Jr.[1] (January 8, 1917 – November 2, 1994), known professionally as Peter Taylor, was an American novelist, short story writer, and playwright.[2] Born and raised in Tennessee and St. Louis, Missouri, he wrote frequently about the urban South in his stories and novels. BiographyHis mother's father was Robert Love Taylor, a politician and writer from eastern Tennessee who served one term as a US Congressman, and three two-year terms as governor of Tennessee in the 19th century, and as United States Senator from Tennessee from 1907 until his death in 1912.[5] During his early childhood, Taylor lived with his family in Nashville. The family moved to St. Louis in 1926 when Taylor's father became president of the General American Life Insurance Company. In St. Louis, Taylor attended the Rossman School and St. Louis Country Day School. In 1932, the family moved to Memphis, where his father established a law practice. Taylor graduated from Central High School in Memphis in 1935. He wrote his first published piece while there, an interview with actress Katharine Cornell.[6] After a gap year in which he traveled to England, Taylor enrolled at Southwestern at Memphis (now Rhodes College) in 1936, studying under the critic Allen Tate. Tate encouraged Taylor to transfer to Vanderbilt University, which he later left to continue studying with the great American critic and poet John Crowe Ransom at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Poet Robert Lowell from Boston was also enrolled there and they became lifelong friends. Taylor also befriended Robert Penn Warren, Randall Jarrell, Katherine Anne Porter, Jean Stafford, James Thackara, Robie Macauley and other significant literary figures of the time.[7] Considered to be one of the finest American short story writers, Taylor made his fictional milieu the urban South, with references to its history. His characters, usually middle or upper-class people, often are living in a time of change in the 20th century, and struggle to discover and define their roles in society. His collection The Old Forest and Other Stories (1985) won the PEN/Faulkner Award. Taylor also wrote three novels, including A Summons to Memphis in 1986, for which he won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and In the Tennessee Country in 1994. Taylor taught literature and writing at Kenyon and at the University of Virginia. He was married for fifty-one years to the poet Eleanor Ross Taylor and died in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1994. His papers are held at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia. WorksShort story collections
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Other(Editor with Robert Lowell and Robert Penn Warren) Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965, Farrar, Straus, 1967. Peter Taylor Reading and Commenting on His Fiction (audio tape), Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature, 1987. Awards and honors
References1. ^{{cite newspaper|first=Hubert H.|last=McAlexander|title=Peter Taylor|date=September 30, 2001|accessdate=October 17, 2017|newspaper=NY Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/30/books/chapters/peter-taylor.html}} 2. ^{{cite newspaper|author=Gussow, Mel|authorlink=Mel Gussow|title=Peter Taylor, Short-Story Master, Dies at 77|date=4 November 1994|newspaper=NY Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/04/obituaries/peter-taylor-short-story-master-dies-at-77.html}} 3. ^{{cite news|title=Lawyer Escapes Mob|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87060004/1908-10-22/ed-1/seq-1/|accessdate=2012-02-08|newspaper=The Bee (Earlington KY)|date=1908-10-22|page=1}} 4. ^{{cite web|author=Special to The New York Times. |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10A15FD3C5D16738DDDA80A94D8415B888CF1D3 |title=Night Riders Slay Lawyers |publisher=New York Times |date=1908-10-21 |accessdate=2011-12-16}} 5. ^{{cite book|last=Alexander|first=Hubert Horton|title=Peter Taylor: A Writer's Life|year=2001|publisher=Louisiana State University Press|isbn=0-8071-2973-9|pages=1–6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_rkj3qrcyyUC&dq}} 6. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=_rkj3qrcyyUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Peter+Taylor+a+writer's+life&hl=en&sa=X&ei=kG_6TpGEKMuCtge0kPTRBg&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=memphis&f=false Hubert Horton McAlexander, Peter Taylor: A Writer's Life, Southern Literary Studies, LSU Press, 2004] {{ISBN|0-8071-2973-9}} 7. ^{{cite book|author=Hubert Horton McAlexander|title=Peter Taylor: A Writer's Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_rkj3qrcyyUC&pg=PR14&hl=en&sa=X&ei=D1cST9zOIYO1hAfGkKWSAg&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage|accessdate=15 January 2012|date=April 2004|publisher=LSU Press|isbn=978-0-8071-2973-9|pages=xiv, 50}} 8. ^{{cite newspaper|title=Second Reading: Jonathan Yardley reviews 'The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor'||newspaper=The Washington Post|date=1 January 2010|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/31/AR2009123102650.html}} Further reading
21 : 20th-century American novelists|American male novelists|Writers from Nashville, Tennessee|1917 births|1994 deaths|Rhodes College alumni|Kenyon College alumni|Kenyon College faculty|Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners|PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners|University of Virginia alumni|Guggenheim Fellows|20th-century American dramatists and playwrights|American male dramatists and playwrights|American male short story writers|20th-century American short story writers|Writers of American Southern literature|PEN/Malamud Award winners|20th-century American male writers|Novelists from Ohio|People from Trenton, Tennessee |
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