Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor was a U.S. author and writer. Born in Trenton, Tennessee to a wealthy Nashville family, Taylor spent his early childhood between in Nashville and St. Louis until his father, an attorney, moved his practice to Memphis in 1936. Taylor enrolled at Rhodes College in 1936, studying under the critic Allen Tate.

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  • Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor was a U.S. author and writer. Born in Trenton, Tennessee to a wealthy Nashville family, Taylor spent his early childhood between in Nashville and St. Louis until his father, an attorney, moved his practice to Memphis in 1936. Taylor enrolled at Rhodes College in 1936, studying under the critic Allen Tate. Tate encouraged Taylor to transfer to Vanderbilt University, from which he left to continue studying with the great American critic, John Crowe Ransom, at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, along with the poet Robert Lowell. He was also friends with Robert Penn Warren, Randall Jarrell, Katherine Anne Porter, Jean Stafford, and other significant literary figures of the time. Considered to be one of the finest American short story writers, Taylor's fictional milieu is the urban South. His characters, usually middle or upper class people, often are living in a time of change and struggle to discover and define their roles in society. Peter Taylor also wrote three novels, including A Summons to Memphis in 1986, for which he won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and In the Tennessee Country in 1994. His collection The Old Forest and Other Stories (1985) won the PEN/Faulkner Award. Taylor taught literature and writing at Kenyon and the University of Virginia. He was married for fifty-one years to the poet Eleanor Ross Taylor, and died in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1994.
  • Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor född 8 januari 1917, död 2 november 1994, var en amerikansk författare. Taylor föddes i en välbärgad familj i Trenton, Tennessee. Han tillbringade sin tidiga barndom i Nashville och Saint Louis tills hans far, en advokat, flyttade sin praktik till Memphis, Tennessee 1936. Taylor studerade vid Rhodes College, därefter vid Vanderbilt University och Kenyon College i Gambier, Ohio. Taylors verk utspelar sig ofta i en förort i Södern. Hans karaktärer är vanligtvis medel- eller överklass, ofta beskrivna i en tid av förändring och i en kamp för att upptäcka och definiera sin roll i samhället. Taylor har även skrivit tre romaner, exempelvis A Summons to Memphis, 1986, för vilken han vann Pulitzerpriset för skönlitteratur 1987 och In the Tennessee Country, 1994. Hans samling The Old Forest and Other Stories, 1985 vann PEN/Faulkner Award. Taylor undervisade i litteratur och skrivande vid Kenyon och vid University of Virginia. Han var gift med poeten Eleanor Ross Taylor i femtioett år och dog i Charlottesville, Virginia, 1994.
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  • Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor was a U.S. author and writer. Born in Trenton, Tennessee to a wealthy Nashville family, Taylor spent his early childhood between in Nashville and St. Louis until his father, an attorney, moved his practice to Memphis in 1936. Taylor enrolled at Rhodes College in 1936, studying under the critic Allen Tate.
  • Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor född 8 januari 1917, död 2 november 1994, var en amerikansk författare. Taylor föddes i en välbärgad familj i Trenton, Tennessee. Han tillbringade sin tidiga barndom i Nashville och Saint Louis tills hans far, en advokat, flyttade sin praktik till Memphis, Tennessee 1936. Taylor studerade vid Rhodes College, därefter vid Vanderbilt University och Kenyon College i Gambier, Ohio. Taylors verk utspelar sig ofta i en förort i Södern.
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