Robert Lewis Taylor

Robert Lewis Taylor (1912 - ) is an American author, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1959 for his novel The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters.

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1912 - American - Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - 1959

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Taylor was born in Carbondale, Illinois and attended Southern Illinois University, which now houses his papers. After college, he became a journalist and won awards for reporting. In 1939, he became a writer for The New Yorker magazine as an author of biographical sketches. Additionally, his work appeared in The Saturday Evening Post and Reader's Digest.

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Carbondale, Illinois - Southern Illinois University - 1939 - The New Yorker - The Saturday Evening Post - Reader's Digest

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From 1942 to 1946, Taylor served in the United States Navy during World War II. During his service, he wrote numerous stories and Adrift in a Boneyard as an extended fiction about survivors of a disaster. In 1949, The Saturday Evening Post commissioned a series of biographical sketches of W. C. Fields. He published them together as W. C. Fields: His Follies and Fortunes. He continued to write biographies, including a biography of Winston Churchill, as well as fiction.

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1942 - 1946 - United States Navy - World War II - 1949 - W. C. Fields - Winston Churchill

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His 1958 novel, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, about a fourteen year old and his father in the California gold rush won the Pulitzer Prize and was purchased for a film. His 1964 novel, Two Roads to Guadalupe, was also quite successful and was partially autobiographical.

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1958 - California - Gold rush - 1964

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