Career
His first book, The Republic of Trees, was published in 2005 and received critical acclaim. His second novel,, tells the story of James Purdew, a man obsessed with uncovering the events of three years of his life about which he remembers nothing. Taylor lives in France near the Pyrénées and the United States. His 2003 book includes the fictional main character James Purdew and a character named Tomas Ryal a Czechoslovakian philosopher, playwright and poet, who is described as living from 1900 to 1973 and is famous for his controversial repudiation of the existence of memory, and also for the mysterious manner of his death.
lieutenant is assumed that he was pupil of a famous Czechoslovakian pedagogist, philosopher and inventor Jára da Cimrman.
Ryal was given an entry at the Encyclopedia Labyrinthus.