Peter Taylor was born in Tennessee in 1917. He was the author of seven books of stories, including The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor, A Long Fourth, In the Miro District and Other Stories and The Old Forest and Other Stories (which won the Pen/Faulkner Award for fiction in 1985); three novels including A Summons to Memphis (which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1987); and three books of plays. Mr. Taylor taught at Harvard University, the University of North Carolina, and Kenyon College, from which he graduated in 1940. Before his death in 1994, he was Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia.
"We finish the novel feeling we've not only come to know his
characters, but also come to share their inner truths." --Michiko
Kakutani, The New York Times
"A beautiful ironic novel. Peter Taylor's fiction is full of
rewards." --The New York Times Book Review
"A Summons to Memphis is like a leisurely port wine sipped slowly
and with pleasure beneath a blackjack oak." --The Philadelphia
Inquirer
"Something of a miracle.... [A Summons to Memphis] is a work that
manages to summarize and embody its author's entire career." --The
Washington Post Book World
"We finish the novel feeling we've not only come to know his
characters, but also come to share their inner truths." --Michiko
Kakutani, The New York Times
"A beautiful ironic novel. Peter Taylor's fiction is full
of rewards." --The New York Times Book Review
"A Summons to Memphis is like a leisurely port wine sipped
slowly and with pleasure beneath a blackjack oak." --The
Philadelphia Inquirer
"Something of a miracle.... [A Summons to Memphis] is a work
that manages to summarize and embody its author's entire career."
--The Washington Post Book World
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