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Peter Taylor today.(Critical Essay)
The territory Peter Taylor staked out for himself may be summed up easily and neatly enough. His characters are primarily upper-middle-class and upper-class people from the upper, as opposed to the "deep," south, living in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Just as William Faulkner made the state of Mississippi his theater of conflict and revelation, Peter Taylor focused on Tennessee, with its three distinct regions: west, middle, and east. Taylor had roots in all three provinces and in his writings the state becomes a paysage moralise.
Born in 1917 in the small West Tennessee town of Trenton--fictionalized as Thornton--he spent his childhood there and ...
- American author Peter Taylor's book, "A Summons to Memphis," wins the...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 6, 1987 700+ words
...Summons to Memphis," written...American author Peter Taylor, was selected...Hemingway Award to Peter Taylor, an American...Summons to Memphis' is a great...Nashville and Memphis. I would...congratulate Peter Taylor for his well...
- On optimists' sons and daughters: Eudora Welty's 'The Optimist's Daughter' and...
- Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly Schmidt, Peter September 22, 1997 700+ words
...s Daughter (1972) and A Summons to Memphis (1986) together makes good sense because...death in 1995, including A Summons to Memphis in 1986, while Welty has published no...Optimist's Daughter and A Summons to Memphis and explore what insights can be gained...
- Peter Taylor's life in motion.(Peter Taylor: A Writer's Life)(Book Review)
- The Southern Literary Journal Lensing, George S. March 22, 2003 700+ words
...A Summons to Memphis, won the Pulitzer...published the biography Peter Taylor: A Writer's...reading it is that Peter Taylor became, for the...with his family in Memphis when he was fifteen...itself--set in Memphis, or "Thornton...contradiction" in Peter Taylor's ...
- Tennessee Writer Peter Taylor Dead at Age 77
- Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered November 4, 1994 700+ words
...NOAH ADAMS, Host: And Peter Taylor has died, an American...the novel, A Summons to Memphis. Writer Shelby Foote knew Peter Taylor for some 40 years and...with us from his home in Memphis about Peter Taylor, a Tennessee writer who...
- The Craft of Peter Taylor.
- Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly Shear, Walter December 22, 1996 700+ words
...attention in The Craft of Peter Taylor. Here one is treated...narrator of A Summons to Memphis); both readings are...past -- thus, to read a Peter Taylor story "we must seek out...motif in A Summons to Memphis and "Dean of Men...
- World of Relations: The Achievement of Peter Taylor.(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly DONALDSON, SUSAN V. June 22, 2000 700+ words
...The Achievement of Peter Taylor, by David M. Robinson...Pulitzer Prize in 1987, Peter Taylor has been the subject...The Achievement of Peter Taylor makes a welcome appearance...works, A Summons to Memphis, The Oracle at Stoneleigh...
- Critical Essays on Peter Taylor.
- Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly Shear, Walter March 22, 1994 700+ words
THIS VOLUME OF PETER TAYLOR CRITICISM is an impressive...novel, A Summons to Memphis) as well as the first...notoriously negative review of Peter Taylor's Collected Stories...Non-Regionalism of Peter Taylor," is included and...
- Peter Taylor's Long-Overdue Pulitzer
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post JONATHAN YARDLEY April 20, 1987 700+ words
...and so it is that Peter Taylor at last has his Pulitzer...Prize for "A Summons to Memphis," his first novel...when "A Summons to Memphis" failed to win the...Collected Stories of Peter Taylor" appeared in 1969...appearance of "A Summons to Memphis" Taylor, through no...
