Peter Taylor (author)

Peter Taylor (January 8, 1917-November 2, 1994) was an American short-story writer and novelist, whose work depicts the changing world of the South as it rural society gave way to industralization.

Born in Trenton, Tennessee, he attended Vanderbilt University, Southwestern College, and College. He published his first collection of short stories in 1948, and continued producing short stories, novellas, and a highly acclaimed novel, A Summons to Memphis (1986, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. He died in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1994.

Select bibliography

• A Long Fourth (1948)
• A Woman of Means (1950)
• The Widows of Thornton (1954)
• Happy Families Are All Alike (1959)
• Miss Leonora When Last Seen (1963)
• In the Miro District (1977)
• The Old Forest (1985)
• A Summons to Memphis (1986)
• The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court (1993)