Waights Taylor Jr., born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, lives in Santa Rosa, California. His professional career included twenty-four years in the aviation industry and then twenty-two years in management consulting. When his professional career was coming to an end, he turned to writing. He is an author, a poet, and a playwright. His first book, Alfons Mucha's Slav Epic: An Artist's History of the Slavic People, was published in 2008. His award-winning book, Our Southern Home: Scottsboro to Montgomery to Birmingham-The Transformation of the South in the Twentieth century, was published in October 2011. Next came the award-winning novel, Kiss of Salvation: A Joe McGrath and Sam Rucker Detective Novel, published in 2014. His newest novel, Touch of Redemption, is the second in the Joe McGrath and Sam Rucker series. Taylor has also written a number of short stories and plays. His first chapbook of poetry, titled Literary Ramblings, was published in early 2011.
"To rightfully observe that Touch of Redemption, the second novel in Waights Taylor's Joe McGrath and Sam Rucker Detective series, is a page-turner--from first to last--fails to fully describe its considerable merits...As if straight out of an episode of HBO's rural-gothic True Detective series, Joe and Sam encounter an intricate maze of small town graft, lakeside racist rituals, shape-shifting politicians and businessmen, and the occasional eccentric hero."KEVIN KONICEK. Attorney and former Hollywood story editor "Touch of Redemption teaches us that black lives mattered long before the present day...that sensitivity to race and racism was present in the harshest of times and circumstances. With an acute eye for detail, an ear for dialog in the streets, and a true sense of the Deep South, Waights Taylor Jr. touches us with a mystery that defines the human condition."JOHN KOETZNER. Poet and author and Library Director, Mendocino College
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