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] After studying at Warwick University. He lives in Leicestershire with his wife, poet Maria Taylor and their twin daughters.^[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. 

References

External links

• Official website
• "Crystal Clear Creators"