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- catalog abstract ""Some years before Peter Taylor's death in 1994, the tacit agreement was made that Hubert McAlexander would be the author's biographer. Peter Taylor, McAlexander's accomplished portrait, achieves for readers a remarkable intimacy with this central figure in the history of the American short story and one of the greatest southern writers of his time." "Taylor's life spanned most of the twentieth century, a fact borne out in the themes of social and psychic rifts in a modernizing South that dominate his stories, plays, and novels. McAlexander knits together the facts and fiction of Taylor's life in a compelling seamless account: his deep and distinguished family roots in Tennessee, and the ancestral basis for some of his best work; boyhood upheavals to Nashville, St. Louis, and Memphis, and his establishment of the dysfunctional family as a major subject in American literature; his awakening as a writer under the tutelage of poets John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren, and the development of complex, subtle, carefully crafted stories - "Compression is everything," Taylor said - as his metier."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12198425.
- catalog coverage "Southern States Intellectual life 1865-".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Some years before Peter Taylor's death in 1994, the tacit agreement was made that Hubert McAlexander would be the author's biographer. Peter Taylor, McAlexander's accomplished portrait, achieves for readers a remarkable intimacy with this central figure in the history of the American short story and one of the greatest southern writers of his time." "Taylor's life spanned most of the twentieth century, a fact borne out in the themes of social and psychic rifts in a modernizing South that dominate his stories, plays, and novels. McAlexander knits together the facts and fiction of Taylor's life in a compelling seamless account: his deep and distinguished family roots in Tennessee, and the ancestral basis for some of his best work; boyhood upheavals to Nashville, St. Louis, and Memphis, and his establishment of the dysfunctional family as a major subject in American literature; his awakening as a writer under the tutelage of poets John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren, and the development of complex, subtle, carefully crafted stories - "Compression is everything," Taylor said - as his metier."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-323) and index.".
- catalog description "The Taylors -- Nashville and St. Louis -- Memphis -- Vanderbilt and the Return Home -- Kenyon -- Limbo -- Marriage and War -- Starting Out in the Forties -- Bloomington and Hillsborough -- The Idyll -- The Middle Years -- London and Ohio State -- Greensboro -- Charlottesville -- An Extension of Time -- Fruition -- Turning Points -- Art and Life.".
- catalog extent "xix, 338 p., [7] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "080712706X (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Southern literary studies".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Southern States Intellectual life 1865-".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "813/.54 B 21".
- catalog subject "Authors, American 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "College teachers United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "PS3539.A9633 Z77 2001".
- catalog subject "Taylor, Peter, 1917-1994.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Taylors -- Nashville and St. Louis -- Memphis -- Vanderbilt and the Return Home -- Kenyon -- Limbo -- Marriage and War -- Starting Out in the Forties -- Bloomington and Hillsborough -- The Idyll -- The Middle Years -- London and Ohio State -- Greensboro -- Charlottesville -- An Extension of Time -- Fruition -- Turning Points -- Art and Life.".
- catalog title "Peter Taylor : a writer's life / Hubert H. McAlexander.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".