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Bert Leston Taylor was born in Goshen, Massachusetts, on November 13, 1866. He was the son of A. O. and Katherine (White) Taylor.
He attended New York public schools and in 1881-82 was a student in the sub-freshman class of the College of the City of New York.
His first newspaper affiliation was with a weekly in Plainfield, N. H. , and the Argus and Patriot, Montpelier, Vt. In 1896 he went to Duluth, Minn. , where he became editorial writer for the News-Tribune. He used to say that his editorials generally were of the "What does the New York Sun mean by the following?" variety.
From 1899 to 1901 he was on the staff of the Chicago Journal, editing a column of comments upon the day's news, miscellaneous verse, and editorial paragraphs, called "A Little About Everything. " From that he went to the Chicago Daily Tribune, where he established the "A Line o' Type or Two" column. In 1903 he wrote a column called "The Way of the World" for the New York Morning Telegraph, and in 1904 joined the staff of Puck, of which he was assistant editor until 1909. Then, recalled by the Chicago Tribune, he revived, with tremendous success, his "A Line o' Type or Two, " which he conducted uninterruptedly until a few days before his death.
Taylor became widely known as B. L. T. , which was his signature at the bottom of his daily columns.
"A Line o' Type or Two" achieved the widest fame and the greatest literary distinction of all newspaper departments in any way similar--and that in Chicago, where Eugene Field's "Sharps and Flats" and George Ade's "Stories of the Streets and of the Town" had preceded it and set standards for originality and literary excellence. A complete newspaper column in length, appearing six days a week, it contained editorial comment (not necessarily in harmony with the editorial policy of the paper), excerpts from the rural press, and Taylor's own highly polished satirical verse, which was more in the manner of Calverley and Gilbert than in the homely style of Eugene Field. The column surpassed Field's in the variety of topics treated, but it followed the day's news so closely, and its general content was so timely, that most of it was as perishable as the day's news itself. Taylor printed also the signed contributions of hundreds of persons who sent to his column clippings, verses, and paragraphs of every conceivable sort. His requirements were high, and it was considered a distinction to "make the Line, " a goal that was achieved by some of the best known writers in the country, whose habit it was to sign merely their initials or pseudonyms.
In addition to many short stories he wrote The Well in the Wood (1904), a juvenile; The Charlatans (1906), a novel of musical life; and the libretto for a musical comedy, The Explorers, with music by Walter H. Lewis, produced in Chicago in 1902. His other books--Line-o'-Type Lyrics (1902), A Line-o'-Verse or Two (1911), The Pipesmoke Carry (1912), A Line o' Gowf or Two (1923), Motley Measures (1913), The East Window, and the Car Window (1924), A Penny Whistle (1921), and The So-Called Human Race (1922)--all were reprints from his column, as were two pamphlets, The Bilioustine (1901), a burlesque of Elbert Hubbard's the Philistine, and The Book Booster (1901), a satire on the Bookman and various aspects of book publishing.
He died in Chicago.
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Quotations: "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. "
Taylor was a member of several literary groups ("The Little Room", Cliff Dwellers Club etc. ).
On November 16, 1895, he married Emma Bonner of Providence, R. I.