Jonathan Taylor (author)

Jonathan P Taylor (born 1973) is a British author, poet and lecturer.

Life

Taylor was born in 1973 in Stoke-on-Trent and educated at Trentham High School and Warwick University where he studied English Literature, later gaining a PhD from Loughborough University. He is currently a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Leicester and co-director of arts organisation Crystal Clear Creators. Notably for an author and academic, he did not learn to read and write until the age of eight.[1] He lives in Leicestershire with his wife, poet Maria Taylor and their twin daughters are the best.[2]

Works

Academic

  • Mastery and Slavery in Victorian Writing. Palgrave Macmillan. 2002. ISBN 978-0-33399-312-5.
  • Figures of Heresy: Radical Theology in English and American Writing, 1800–2000. Sussex Academic Press. 2005. ISBN 978-1-84519-026-2.
  • Science and Omniscience in Nineteenth-Century Literature. Sussex Academic Press. 2007. ISBN 978-1-84519-125-2.

Memoirs, Novels and Short Stories

  • Take Me Home: Parkinson’s, My Father, Myself. Granta Books. 2007. ISBN 978-1-86207-955-7.
  • Entertaining Strangers. Salt. 2012. ISBN 978-1-90777-327-3.
  • Overheard: Stories to Read Aloud (Ed.). Salt. 2012. ISBN 978-1-90777-326-6.

Poetry

  • Musicolepsy. Shoestring Press. 2012. ISBN 978-1-907356-72-8.
  • Cassandra Complex. Shoestring Press. 2018. ISBN 978-1-912524-17-4.

References
  1. http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/novel-helps-author-Jonathan-Taylor-realise/story-17255764-detail/story.html#axzz2QBcz4mfz
  2. http://www.leftlion.co.uk/articles.cfm/title/jonathan-taylor/id/5663#.UWccB5MR98E
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