THEODORE TAYLOR was born in North Carolina and began writing at the age of thirteen as a cub reporter for the Portsmouth, Virginia Evening Star. He left home at seventeen to join the Washington Daily News as a copy boy, working his way toward New York City, and became an NBC sportswriter at the age of nineteen. Since then he has been a manager of prizefighters, a merchant seaman, a naval officer, a magazine writer, a movie publicist and production assistant, and a documentary filmmaker. He has written many books for adults and child, including THE CAY, which won many literary awards, including the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and was made into a movie. Mr. Taylor live sin Laguna Beach, California.
Praise for The Cay:
“Mr. Taylor has provided an exciting story…The idea that all
humanity would benefit from this special form of color blindness
permeates the whole book…The result is a story with a high ethical
purpose but no sermon.”—New York Times Book Review
“A taut tightly compressed story of endurance and revelation…At
once barbed and tender, tense and fragile—as Timothy would say,
‘outrageous good.’”—Kirkus Reviews
* “Fully realized setting…artful, unobtrusive use of dialect…the
representation of a hauntingly deep love, the poignancy of which is
rarely achieved in children’s literature.”—School Library Journal,
Starred
“Starkly dramatic, believable and compelling.”—Saturday Review
“A tense and moving experience in reading.”—Publishers Weekly
“Eloquently underscores the intrinsic brotherhood of
man.”—Booklist
"This is one of the best survival stories since Robinson
Crusoe."—The Washington Star
· A New York Times Best Book of the Year
· A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
· A Horn Book Honor Book
· An American Library Association Notable Book
· A Publishers Weekly Children’s Book to Remember
· A Child Study Association’s Pick of Children’s Books of the
Year
· Jane Addams Book Award
· Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
· Commonwealth Club of California: Literature Award
· Southern California Council on Literature for Children and Young
People Award
· Woodward School Annual Book Award
· Friends of the Library Award, University of California at Irvine
Praise for The Cay:
"Mr. Taylor has provided an exciting story...The idea that all
humanity would benefit from this special form of color blindness
permeates the whole book...The result is a story with a high
ethical purpose but no sermon."-New York Times Book Review
"A taut tightly compressed story of endurance and revelation...At
once barbed and tender, tense and fragile-as Timothy would say,
'outrageous good.'"-Kirkus Reviews
* "Fully realized setting...artful, unobtrusive use of
dialect...the representation of a hauntingly deep love, the
poignancy of which is rarely achieved in children's
literature."-School Library Journal, Starred
"Starkly dramatic, believable and compelling."-Saturday Review
"A tense and moving experience in reading."-Publishers Weekly
"Eloquently underscores the intrinsic brotherhood of
man."-Booklist
"This is one of the best survival stories since Robinson
Crusoe."-The Washington Star
* A New York Times Best Book of the Year
* A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
* A Horn Book Honor Book
* An American Library Association Notable Book
* A Publishers Weekly Children's Book to Remember
* A Child Study Association's Pick of Children's Books of the
Year
* Jane Addams Book Award
* Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
* Commonwealth Club of California: Literature Award
* Southern California Council on Literature for Children and Young
People Award
* Woodward School Annual Book Award
* Friends of the Library Award, University of California at Irvine
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