With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
Robert Lewis Taylor
Fiction, Journalism/Non-Fiction
1912 – 1998
- Biography/Description of Work
Taylor began his career as a journalist in the 1930s, and in 1939 became a writer for The New Yorker and other magazines. He served in the Navy during World War II, and moved to Old Branchville Road in Ridgefield c.1950. Here he wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning 1959 novel set during the Gold Rush and entitled “The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters.” It inspired a 1960 TV series of the same name. He authored several more novels and biographies of WC Fields and Winston Churchill among others.
- Sources view
- http://jackfsanders.tripod.com/S-Z.htm, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lewis_Taylor, http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/04/arts/robert-lewis-taylor-is-dead-novelist-and-biographer-88.html, http://archives.lib.siu.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=2235&q=&rootcontentid=35775 Robert Lewis Taylor Article - New York Times - 1958-6-16, Robert Lewis Taylor Article - New York Times - 1964-9-6, Robert Lewis Taylor Obituary - New York Times - 1998-10-4
- Associated Resource(s)
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