Birth Name:

Benjamin Taylor (author)

Male

Birth Date:

Wed, Aug 20, 1952

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Age:

71

Zodiac Sign:

Leo

Astrology Data:

Sun

27°

Leo

35'

About Benjamin Taylor (author)

Benjamin Taylor (born 1952) is an American writer whose work has appeared in a number of publications including The Atlantic, Harper's, Esquire, Bookforum, BOMB, the Los Angeles Times, Le Monde, The Georgia Review, Raritan Quarterly Review, Threepenny Review, Salmagundi, Provincetown Arts and The Reading Room. He is a founding member of the Graduate Writing Program faculty of The New School in New York City, and has also taught at Washington University in St. Louis, the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, Bennington College and Columbia University. He has served as Secretary of the Board of Trustees of PEN American Center, has been a fellow of the MacDowell Colony and was awarded the Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger Residency at Yaddo. A Trustee of the Edward F. Albee Foundation, Inc., he is also a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University and a Guggenheim Fellow for 2012 - 2013. Taylor's biography of Marcel Proust, Proust: The Search, was published in October 2015 by Yale University Press as part of its newly launched Yale Jewish Lives series.

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External Links:

• The Website of Benjamin Taylor, Author

• "Prodigal Son" essay by Taylor that appears in Loss Within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS, edited by Edmund White, The University of Wisconsin Press, 2001

• The New Yorker review of The Book of Getting Even June 9, 2008

• "Last Line: Benjamin Taylor, Author of The Book of Getting Even" Esquire, June 10, 2008

• LA Times review of The Book of Getting Even June 30, 2008

• "Indignation Day" Video of Benjamin Taylor's interview with Philip Roth, live webcast sponsored by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, September 16, 2008

• "Fiction as Fibbing: Benjamin Taylor" Interview with Carlin M. Wragg of Open Loop Press, November 2008

• "The Epistolary Adventures of Saul Bellow" Interview with Evan R. Goldstein in The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 28, 2010

• Bellow in His Dream Car: An Interview with Benjamin Taylor Dissent Magazine, November 4, 2010

• "An Epistolary Performer" A Review of Saul Bellow: Letters by Gabriel Josipovici, The Wall Street Journal, November 6, 2010

• Saul Bellow: Letters Review by Justin Cartwright, Financial Times, November 8, 2010

• "Saul Bellow: Letters" Review, The New Statesman, November 11, 2010

• Reading Saul Bellow's Letters Interview with Benjamin Taylor, Gloria Cronin and Nathan Englander on NPR's On Point with Tom Ashbrook, November 15, 2010

• "Mr. Bellow's Planet" Interview with Benjamin Taylor, The Jewish Week, November 16, 2010

• "Saul Bellow letters - Review" by John Banville, The Guardian, November 20, 2010

• "The Whole Human Mess: Saul Bellow" Review of Saul Bellow: Letters by William Deresiewicz, The Nation, retrieved November 23, 2010

• "The Year in Reading: Richard Brody" Post on Saul Bellow: Letters by Richard Brody, The New Yorker digital edition, December 14, 2010

• "In un libro di lettere di Saul Bellow" Review of Saul Bellow: Letters', Il Foglio, December 18, 2010

• "Epistle Whip" Review of Saul Bellow: Letters, The Australian, December 29, 2010

• "Hurricane Man" Review of Saul Bellow: Letters by Michael O'Donnell, The Wilson Quarterly, Winter 2011

• "Fine Jewish Whine" Review of Saul Bellow: Letters by Benjamin Balint, Haaretz, January 9, 2011

• "Saul Bellow's Emotional Crucible" Excerpt from Benjamin Taylor's introduction to Saul Bellow: Letters in The National Post (Canada), January 20, 2010

• "Writers' Letters: A Roundtable" The Book Show, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, January 28, 2011.

• "Lasting Man" Review of Saul Bellow: Letters by Cynthia Ozick, The New Republic, February 10, 2011

• "Well-Written 'Letters': Saul Bellow Shows Us How" Review of Saul Bellow: Letters by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on NPR's All Things Considered, March 15, 2011

• "Philip Roth: I'm not caged in by reality," Benjamin Taylor interviews Philip Roth, The Telegraph, May 20, 2011

• "Saul Bellow in Life and Letters" Panel with Benjamin Taylor and Joyce Carol Oates, moderated by Peter Orner, Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, March 31, 2012

• "Benjamin Taylor in Conversation with Adam Fitzgerald," The Brooklyn Rail, September 2012

• "Best Books of 2012," Naples Declared listed as one of the Best Books of 2012, The New Yorker, December 13, 2012

• "Reading: Naples Declared: A Walk Around the Bay," Benjamin Taylor reads an excerpt from Naples Declared, Henry Review, January 3, 2013.

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Benjamin Taylor (author): Sun 27 Leo, Moon 28 Leo, Mercury 15 Leo, Venus 13 Virgo, Mars 25 Scorpio, Jupiter 20 Taurus, Saturn 12 Libra, Uranus 16 Cancer, Neptune 19 Libra, Pluto 21 Leo, Mercury Sextile Saturn, Sun Square Mars, Sun Semi Square Saturn, Sun Conjunct Pluto, Mercury Semi Sextile Venus, Mercury Semi Sextile Uranus, Mercury Conjunct Pluto, Venus Semi Sextile Saturn, Venus Sextile Uranus, Mars Semi Square Saturn, Mars Square Pluto, Jupiter Sextile Uranus, Jupiter Quincunx Neptune, Jupiter Square Pluto, Saturn Square Uranus, Uranus Square Neptune, Neptune Sextile Pluto

Categories related to Benjamin Taylor (author): Living people, Columbia University alumni, Texas, 1952 births, August 20 births, Columbia University faculty, The New School faculty, American male writers, People from Fort Worth, American humanities academics, Haverford College alumni, Washington University in St. Louis faculty, Bennington College faculty, MacDowell Colony fellows

Photo attribution: Benjamin Taylor, Work for hire for Benjamin Taylor by Marion Ettlinger