Jonathan Taylor (author) explained

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.^[2]

Works

Academic

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

Memoirs, Novels and Short Stories

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

Poetry

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

External links

• • "Crystal Clear Creators"

Notes and References

1. Web site: Staffordshire Live - Latest local news, sport & business from Staffordshire .
2. Web site: Jonathan Taylor.