Wordpress author biography john taylor

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Born in 1952, in Des Moines, Iowa, John Taylor is an American writer, critic, and translator. He studied mathematics at the University of Idaho (graduating in 1974), then literature and philosophy at the University of Hamburg (Germany), where he was a Rotary International Fellow.

He also spent a year on the island of Samos, Greece, before settling in France in 1977. After living in Paris until 1987, he moved to Angers, in the lower Loire Valley.

Taylor is the author of seven collections of stories and short prose, six of which have been translated into French and two of which into Italian; selected poems and stories have appeared in Dutch, German, Greek, Polish, Ukrainian, and Slovene literary reviews.

—The Presence of Things Past, 1992.
—Mysteries of the Body and the Mind, 1998.
—The World As It Is, 1998.
—Some Sort of Joy, 2000.
—The Apocalypse Tapestries, 2004.
—Now the Summer Came to Pass, 2012.
—If Night is Falling, 2012.

As a polyglot literary critic, Taylor