Peter Taylor by Hubert H Mcalexander

Peter Taylor by Hubert H Mcalexander

In Peter Taylor, an impressively researched and engagingly written biography, Hubert McAlexander weaves together the facts and fiction of Taylor's life and creates a vivid canvas of the man, the artist, and his cultural and literary milien. This book chronicles Taylor's unusually balanced existence and a stable fifty-year marriage to poet Eleanor Ross Taylor amid the emotional wreckage of perhaps the most self-destructive generation in American literary history. It explores Taylor's major contributions to three generations of American literature - he virtually established the dysfunctional family as a major subject in American fiction, he was among the first era of writers to earn a living in the academic world and became a model teacher-writer, and he persevered through various writing movements and literary fashions. This book shows Taylor emerge as a major writer under the aegis of the New Yorker, persevere over the decades, and finally win public recognition with the Pulitzer Prize at age seventy for his novel A Summons to Memphis.

Hubert H. McAlexander received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is currently an English professor at the University of Georgia in Athens. His previous books are The Prodigal Daughter: A Biography of Sherwood Bonner (LSU, 1981), Conversations with Peter Taylor (University Press of Mississippi, 1987), and Critical Essays on Peter Taylor (G.K. Hall, 1993).

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ISBN 13	9780807127063
ISBN 10	080712706X
Title	Peter Taylor
Author	Hubert H Mcalexander
Series	Southern Literary Studies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Louisiana State University Press
Year published	2001-09-30
Number of pages	360
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