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   Who was Peter Taylor?

   • Peter Taylor was a short-story writer and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Summons to Memphis (1986). During a writing career that spanned six decades, much of which was spent in Charlottesville, he established himself as a master of short fiction, displaying elegance and lucidity of style in examining family life in the New South.

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   Who wrote 'Peter Taylor'?

   • In ''Peter Taylor,'' McAlexander, a professor of English at the University of Georgia, very nearly gives us a history of 20th-century American letters, so intertwined was Taylor's life with that of other writers, from Katherine Anne Porter and Allen Tate to John Casey, James Alan McPherson and Ann Beattie.

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   Was Peter Taylor a'regional' writer?

   • It has always been Peter Taylor's misfortune to be considered a ''regional'' writer, when, although most of his fiction is set in the South, over and over again he invented and explained a particular social tension to illustrate a universal point.

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   How old was Peter Taylor when he won the Pulitzer Prize?

   • AFTER winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for his novel ''A Summons to Memphis,'' Peter Taylor, at 70 years old, was caught up for the first time in his life in a flurry of celebrity that broadened his audience beyond his regular core of New Yorker readers and the many poets and writers who had always admired his work.

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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Peter_Taylor_(writer)Peter Taylor (writer) - Wikipedia

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   Matthew Hillsman Taylor Jr. (January 8, 1917 – November 2, 1994), known professionally as Peter Taylor, was an American novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Born and raised in Tennessee and St. Louis, Missouri , he wrote frequently about the urban South in his stories and novels.

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   Apr 22, 2024 · Peter Taylor was an American short-story writer, novelist, and playwright known for his portraits of Tennessee gentry caught in a changing society. From 1936 to 1937 Taylor attended Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, then the center of a Southern literary renaissance led by poets Allen.

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   May 3, 2024 · A biography of Peter Taylor, a Pulitzer Prize-winning short-story writer and novelist who explored family life in the New South. Learn about his early influences, his teaching career, his major works, and his themes of freedom and limitation.

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   Nov 2, 1994 · Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor was a U.S. author and writer. Considered to be one of the finest American short story writers, Taylor's fictional milieu is the urban South. His characters, usually middle or upper class people, often are living in a time of change and struggle to discover and define their roles in society.

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   • Death Date: November 2, 1994

   • Birth Date: January 8, 1917

7. www.nytimes.com › 1994/11/04 › obituariesPeter Taylor, Short-Story Master, Dies at 77 (Published 1994)

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   Nov 4, 1994 · Peter Taylor, a novelist and short-story writer whose work was often praised for its gentility and its emotional precision, died on Wednesday at the University of Virginia Hospital in...

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   Sep 30, 2001 · AFTER winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for his novel ''A Summons to Memphis,'' Peter Taylor, at 70 years old, was caught up for the first time in his life in a flurry of celebrity that...

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    A Summons to Memphis is a 1986 novel by Peter Taylor that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1987. It is the recollection of Phillip Carver, a middle aged editor from New York City, who is summoned back to Memphis by his two conniving unmarried sisters to help them prevent the marriage of their elderly father to a younger woman. Plot summary.