Background
Taylor, Peter Matthew Hillsman was born on January 8, 1917 in Trenton, Tennessee, United States. Son of Matthew Hillsman and Katherine Taylor.
( Described by Anne Tyler as "the undisputed master of th...)
Described by Anne Tyler as "the undisputed master of the short story form," Peter Taylor imbued his stories with a powerful sense of the conflicts between the old rural society and the increasingly urbanized South. Ranging in subject from the story of the exposure of a respected doctor's infidelity by the family's longtime cook to the tale of elderly siblings whose party for young people exposes the town's class divisions, the stories often explore family dynamics within the larger society of the South.
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(An eclectic collection of fiction by the author of A Summ...)
An eclectic collection of fiction by the author of A Summons to Memphis includes a novella, ten stories, and three one-act plays that evoke the spirit of the South and its people. 27,500 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo.
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The eight stories and one short play that make up this book revolve around black and white families who once lived in the small town of Thornton, Tennessee. "The stories . . . are outwardly simple, but psychologically complex and powerful, and under the surface of events in the regions he knows best the author discloses the universal longings of the human heart."--New York Times.
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( This collection of four prose and four intimately told ...)
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. Set mostly in Nashville and Memphis amid Taylor's fictional genteel Tennessee society, these tales belie serene manners and lovely neighborhoods with undercurrents of irony, violence, disgrace, sexual transgressions, and generational divide. Often shadowing male despair in the modern world, they describe the power of unleashed passion once the restraint of custom has given way.
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( Gerald Dudley is an executive at a hardware company in ...)
Gerald Dudley is an executive at a hardware company in St. Louis, living the quintessential bachelor life with his young son, Quint. He is also a man who aspires beyond his means and class. When Gerald meets the wealthy divorcée Ann Lauterbach and the two marry, life changes irrevocably for Quint. He enters a social world of private schools and debutante balls known to him only through his father's longings. As Quint's attachment to his stepmother and her "means" grows, her marriage to his father begins to crumble in small, subtle ways, which ultimately leads to larger, more devastating consequences.
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Taylor, Peter Matthew Hillsman was born on January 8, 1917 in Trenton, Tennessee, United States. Son of Matthew Hillsman and Katherine Taylor.
Student, Vanderbilt University, 1936-1937; student, Southwestern College, 1937-1938; Bachelor of Arts, Kenyon College, 1940.
Faculty, Harvard University, 1946-1947; professor Englishative writing, U.Va., Charlottesville, 1967-1983; Professor of English, University of Virginia, 1967-1983. Visiting lecturer Indiana U., 1949, Kenyon College, 1952-1957, University of Oxford, 1955, Ohio State University, 1957-1963, Harvard University, 1964, 1972-1973.
( This collection of four prose and four intimately told ...)
( Described by Anne Tyler as "the undisputed master of th...)
(An eclectic collection of fiction by the author of A Summ...)
(The eight stories and one short play that make up this bo...)
( Gerald Dudley is an executive at a hardware company in ...)
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Member National Academy Arts and Letters, American Academy Arts. and Sciences.
Married Eleanor Lilly Ross, June 4, 1943. Children: Katherine Baird, Peter Ross.