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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. Peter 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. His collection The Old Forest and Other Stories (1985) won the PEN/Faulkner Award. Taylor taught literature and writing at Kenyon and the University of Virginia.
1986
Intriguing Items and Fascinating Feats from the First World War
2014
1969
2002
1977
A Spinster’s Tale / What You Hear from ’Em? / Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time / Miss Leonora When Last Seen / Other Stories
2017
1994
Stories
1993
1950
It's All Bollocks!: The Complete Exposure of the World of, and the Value of, Project Management
2019
The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland
2023