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  Peter Taylor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter Taylor, editor of The Bridge on the River Kwai and winner of the 1957 Academy Award for Film Editing
Peter Taylor, former goalkeeper for Nottingham Forest F.C. ; manager of Brighton and Hove Albion F.C. and Derby County F.C. and assistant manager to Brian Clough at a number of football clubs [1]
Peter Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 1992 to 1997
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Taylor   (176 words)

  
 Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor (January 8, 1917 - November 2, 1994) was a U.S. author and writer.
Peter Taylor also wrote two novels 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 the University of Virginia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Matthew_Hillsman_Taylor   (183 words)

  
 Southern Scribe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It was his meeting with the southern author himself, who had been invited by the University of Georgia to come speak to the student body for a week in 1984, and his own impressions of the writer.
Peter would say to me a number of times, “I am not intellectual anyway, except as a writer.” And he was not an academic or a critic.
Peter Taylor’s real significance is as one of the notable American short story writers of this century, although he won the Pulitzer Prize for a novel, Summons to Memphis, in 1987.
www.southernscribe.com /zine/authors/McAlexander_Hubert.htm   (1874 words)

  
 BookPage Nonfiction Review: Peter Taylor
When Hubert H. McAlexander, a professor at the University of Georgia, first told Peter Taylor he wanted to be his biographer, Taylor replied, "Oh, no, I haven't had a very interesting life." But Taylor, a 20th century master of the short story and a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, in fact had many fascinating stories to tell.
The future author was born in Trenton, a small town in western Tennessee, where his father was an attorney and politician.
Taylor is often referred to as a Southern or regional author.
www.bookpage.com /0109bp/nonfiction/peter_taylor.html   (316 words)

  
 A Summons to Memphis (Vintage International (Paperback))
Peter Taylor, a native Tennessean, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with this story in 1987.
Although Taylor's works focus on the "society" of Nashville and Memphis for the most part and not the agrarians of the rural south, his themes are much the same.
Although Peter Taylor was a fine writer, I doubt that A Summons to Memphis merited the Pulitzer Prize in 1987.
www.onlinemerchantaccountnow.com /BookStore/isbn0375701176.html   (1012 words)

  
 Peter A. Taylor
Taylor, P.A., Li, P-Y. and Wilson, J.D., 2002, Lagrangian simulation of suspended particles in the neutrally stratified atmospheric boundary layer, J.
Zhang, L., Michelangeli, D.V. and Taylor, P.A., 2004, Numerical studies of precipitation formation and the effect of giant CCN in low-level, warm stratiform marine and continental clouds, subm.
The recently accepted paper by Xiao and Taylor (2002) discusses some basic anomalies with the "standard" power law profile assumed for equilibrium profiles of suspended particles, while recently published work (Taylor et al, 2002) investigates the use of Lagrangian Simulation models for heavy particles as a means of determining effective settling velocities and eddy diffusivities.
www.yorku.ca /pat/research/peter.html   (1517 words)

  
 BookkooB: Brits - Peter Taylor
Peter Taylor, who has produced many fine BBC documentaries and a series of books on this difficult subject here details the more controversial incidents in the record of the security and intelligence agencies.
Taylor never minces words about the enormity of some of the deeds committed, but he is also scrupulously fair, seeking to understand the motivations behind the players.
Once again Peter Taylor has proved to be a master at portraying complex issues at the heart of the Irish Question in manner which is clear, concise and even handed and yet holds the readers attention like a classic thriller.
www.bookkoob.co.uk /book/074755806X.htm   (801 words)

  
 Knoxville Writers' Guild - Peter Taylor's Biography
Taylor's fictional milieu is the urban upper South as experienced by middle or upper class people, many from rural backgrounds.
Taylor said that of all his great good luck, the best was finding early sympathetic and supportive writer-teachers.
Peter Taylor is buried in the cemetery at Sewanee atop the Cumberland Plateau overlooking what he called "the long green hinterland that is Tennessee." In every regard it is fitting that this Tennessee award be named the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel.
www.knoxvillewritersguild.org /taylorbio.htm   (859 words)

  
 On Peter Taylor, by William Pratt
Vanderbilt SAE Peter Taylor is the author of two novels, A Woman of Means (1950) and A Summons to Memphis, which in 1986 won both the Pulitzer Prize and, in Paris, the $50,000 Ritz Hemingway prize for English Literature.
That Taylor, too, sees ghosts in old age may be evidence of his anticipation of death, but he manages to make them seem a part of ordinary human experience, just as James did, not at all the exotic Gothic apparitions of Poe.
The consummate artistry of Peter Taylor, like that of James and Porter, convinces us that divine justice might somehow operate in ordinary human circumstances, that there is a moral order in the universe which makes instruments of good or evil out of quite normal people, your friends or neighbors, maybe even your close relatives.
www.allnetbiz.com /sae/Peter_Taylor.htm   (719 words)

  
 Peter Taylor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Peter Taylor, McAlexander’s accomplished portrait, achieves for readers a remarkable intimacy with this central figure in the history of the American short story and one of the greatest southern writers of his time.
Taylor’s life spanned most of the twentieth century, a fact borne out in the themes of social and psychic rifts in a modernizing South that dominate his stories, plays, and novels.
Hubert H. McAlexander, professor of English at the University of Georgia, is the author of The Prodigal Daughter: A Biography of Sherwood Bonner and editor of Conversations with Peter Taylor and Critical Essays on Peter Taylor.
www.lsu.edu /lsupress/Books/fall2001_books/books/mcalexander.html   (517 words)

  
 Peter A. Taylor
, the son of Peter Taylor and Catherine Courtauld, was born in 1819.
His wife, Clementia Taylor, was also active in the movement and for many years was treasurer of the London National Society for Women's Suffrage.
Throughout his life Taylor gave generously to humanitarian causes and this is reflected in the small amount of money that he left to his family in his will.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TEXtaylor.htm   (380 words)

  
 Elizabeth Taylor - Author Biography
Elizabeth Taylor was arguably the world's most famous woman at the time and undoubtedly its most glamorous.
Ultimately, Taylor and Burton became Bozzacchi's professional ticket to extraordinary success, as he documented all of their film productions and acted as a special photographer on the set of many other films.
Among his reasons for quitting were the divorce of Taylor and Burton, the death of his father, and the frustration of no longer being challenged.
www.wisc.edu /wisconsinpress/Presskits/BozzacchiAuthor.html   (1108 words)

  
 Powell's Books - A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Peter Taylor is one of the masters of Southern literature, whose work stands in the company of Eudora Walty, James Agee, and Walker Percy.
Peter Taylor was born in Tennessee in 1917.
Taylor taught at Harvard University, the University of North Carolina, and Kenyon College, from which he graduated in 1940.
www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=0375701176   (456 words)

  
 Peter Taylor
In 1817 Taylor borrowed money from his brother-in-law, William Bromley, and invested it in George Courtauld and Co, a company owned by his cousin, George Courtauld.
Taylor was a Unitarian, who favoured social reform.
Peter Taylor, said "The cry of suffering and distress would make itself heard, and if that distress were not speedily relieved, he believed this distress would make itself heard in a voice of thunder which would frighten the government and the legislature from its propriety.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TEXtaylorP.htm   (392 words)

  
 BANC page 4 - Agendas of Delusion - Peter Taylor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Peter Taylor, author of a forthcoming book on ‘wildlands’ commissioned by The British Association of Nature Conservationist’s, discusses the controversial new book by Danish writer Bjorn Lomborg, "The Skeptical Environmentalist", which has had a worldwide impact.
Lomborg blasts certain authors with an axe to grind on water and health for using short time trends in the 1990s and redefinitions of access to clean water and sanitation.
The issue of the natural fertility of soils is not addressed, perhaps because the author believes fertiliser is the modern answer and that as people get richer (inevitably) they will be able to buy their way out of any natural degradation.
www.banc.org.uk /ecosnews/ecosnew4.html   (5974 words)

  
 Special Collections: Peter Taylor Papers (Addition)
In 1995, Special Collections at the Jean and Alexander Heard Library purchased a collection of important papers of the late author Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor (1917-1994), a Southern writer who was considered by many a Master of the short story form.
Taylor, who died in 1994 in Charlottesville, Virginia, received a Pulitzer Prize for his novel, A Summons to Memphis, which was published in 1986.
Taylor's influences included John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren, members of the Fugitive and Agrarian literary movements.
www.library.vanderbilt.edu /speccol/taylorp_addition.shtml   (290 words)

  
 Writer's Exchange Publishing Authors - Peter Taylor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Peter Taylor was born in Hitchin, in Hertfordshire, England.
Eventually training as an ecologist and educator, Peter has been employed in former lives as a natural history curator in a museum, nature reserve warden and high-school science and art teacher.
When his children were small, and he was making up stories for them, Peter realized that in all the jobs he has had he has always loved writing, so, in 1999, he studied for a Diploma of Professional Children's Writing.
www.writers-exchange.com /peter-taylor.htm   (657 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Spinning on the Axis of Evil: America's War Against Iraq: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Taylor's methodical practice of recording the situation on the ground before, during, and after a conflict makes him stand out in this age of parachute journalists blinded by "the fog of war," as Geraldo once put it.
Taylor's pre-war visits to Iraq to report on the crippling effects of the 12 year embargo may help to explain to Americans why their troops were not greeted as liberators when the toppled Saddam.
Although Taylor was a frequent "guest" of the Iraqi regime, he was also expelled twice for his writings, and even accused of being a spy for the Mossad.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1895896223?v=glance   (968 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
There's no denying that Taylor is a very good writer of short stories, but this selection will not do, for the serious reader, scholar, or intrigued novice.
Peter Taylor deserves better than this shoddy, sloppy presentation.
Peter Taylor is a master stylist, writing taught, compelling Southern fiction.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/031242020X   (470 words)

  
 Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel - Guidelines
The goal of the Peter Taylor Prize competition is to identify and publish novels of high literary quality.
The 2004 Peter Taylor Prize was awarded to John Parras of New Milford, New Jersey, for his novel Fire on Mount Maggiore, to be published in the Fall of 2005.
The Peter Taylor Prize Committee must be notified immediately if the manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere.
www.knoxvillewritersguild.org /guide.htm   (570 words)

  
 Peter Taylor Forsyth --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
More results on "Peter Taylor Forsyth" when you join.
British author of best-selling thriller novels noted for their journalistic style and their fast-paced plots based on international political affairs and personalities.
Peter became the most prominent of the 12 disciples.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9034928?tocId=9034928   (642 words)

  
 Peter Taylor --  Encyclopædia Britannica
From 1936 to 1937 Taylor attended Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, then the center of a Southern literary renaissance led by poets Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, and John Crowe Ransom.
More results on "Peter Taylor" when you join.
Examines Taylor's career and his efforts to interest young people in jazz music, and includes questions from listeners.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9104897?tocId=9104897   (592 words)

  
 Allen & Unwin - Book Details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In the final part of his trilogy exploring 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland, Peter Taylor talks to undercover agents of the British state and reveals for the first time the hidden secrets of the war they waged against the IRA for thirty years.
In deepening, broadening and amplifying what was already a fascinating and complex story on television, Peter Taylor has written the hardest hitting and most coherent account of the thirty-year war yet published.
About the Author : Peter Taylor has reported on Northern Ireland for almost 30 years and has made more than 50 documentaries on the conflict for ITV and for the BBC.
www.allenandunwin.com /shopping/product.asp?ISBN=074755806X   (257 words)

  
 News Release
Driving Taylor to his house for dinner that first evening, McAlexander was stuck by Taylor’s famous charm, as Taylor directed the conversation toward McAlexander, who is from Holly Springs, Miss., near Taylor’s own beloved Memphis.
Taylor’s ties with UGA didn’t end with his week as a writer-in-residence in 1984, however.
Taylor, in addition to publishing many volumes of short stories, most of which originally appeared in The New Yorker, was a playwright as well and left three published novels at his death.
www.uga.edu /news/newsbureau/releases/2001releases/0108/010815mcalexander.html   (888 words)

  
 Used Book Central Search / author: taylor, peter
Taylor, Richard and Edward Wakeling; Bunnell, Peter C.; Wakeling, Edward; LEWIS CARROLL: 2002 Taylor, Richard and Edward Wakeling.
Taylor, Bernard A.; John A. Lee, Peter R. Burton, and Richard E. Whitaker eds.
MacVicar, Jamie F., Frederick H. MacVicar and Peter A. Taylor: Near Fine in lightly soiled DJ Humor Acropolis (1996) 1st Edition HC Light bumping and fading to the spine ends.
www.usedbookcentral.com /texis/ubc/searchbooks,author,taylor_peter,jump,120.html   (1671 words)

  
 Endowed Positions, Oregon State University Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
He is an expert in the works of the New England Transcendentalist authors of the early 19th century—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau.
His 1982 study of Emerson's formative years, Apostle of Culture: Emerson as Preacher and Lecturer, traced the emergence of Emerson's mature philosophy, with its stress on the dignity of the individual and the importance of self-culture.
The 20th century Southern author, Peter Taylor, was the subject of Robinson's 1998 work, World of Relations: The Achievement of Peter Taylor.
osufoundation.org /endowed_positions/detail.html?position_id=32   (406 words)

  
 Page Title
This immense volume represents the author's life long research into this enigmatic and complicated subject.
Peter Taylor has been able to meticulously track down 400 colour images which combined into one volume make this the most definitive book ever to be published on the Special Forces Insignia.
The author Peter Taylor, is an avid militaria collector.
members.aol.com /ptaylor616/page3.html   (192 words)

  
 Peter Taylor, In the Miro District and Other Stories   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This collection of four prose and four intimately told verse stories was first published in 1977, and the following year Peter Taylor was given the Gold Medal Award for the short story by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
“Taylor’s measured, almost neutral narrative voice is wholly at odds with received opinion on southern style.
Peter Taylor, 1917–1994, was the author of eight books of stories, including The Widows of Thornton and The Old Forest, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1985; three novels, including A Summons to Memphis, winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 1986 Ritz/Hemingway Prize; and three books of plays.
www.lsu.edu /lsupress/Books/fall2002/books/Taylor_Miro_District.html   (280 words)

  
 Taylor reviews
In ''A Summons to Memphis, '' as in all Peter Taylor's
A SUMMONS TO MEMPHIS By Peter Taylor Knopf.
Peter Taylor is still not widely read, even in his own home state.
www.swarthmore.edu /humanities/pschmid1/engl116/old.E116/taylor.html   (8216 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Behind the mask by Peter Taylor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Behind the Mask is the most comprehensive investigation available of the rise of the IRA and its political wing, Sinn Fein.
Author Peter Taylor has achieved unprecedented access to IRA members and documents, Irish and British soldiers, politicians, and eyewitnesses to The Troubles.
From the Easter rising in 1916 to the ceasefire in effect today, the history and politics of the conflict are laid out here with deadly clarity.
www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=0-1575000776-0   (92 words)

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