Robert Lewis Taylor
Born: 1912 in Carbondale, Illinois
Died: 1998 Pen Name: None Connection to Illinois: Taylor was born in Carbondale. He attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale for one year and graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor of Arts in 1933. Biography: Robert Lewis Taylor was an author and journalist. In 1939, he became a writer for ''The New Yorker'' magazine, contributing biographical sketches. His work also appeared in ''The Saturday Evening Post'' and ''Reader's Digest''. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1959.
Awards:
- '''''The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters'''''
- -- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1959
Selected Titles
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A roaring in the wind : ISBN: 0399120890 OCLC: 3415194 Putnam, New York : ©1978. Follows the adventures of Ross Nickerson, who leaves Harvard College in 1857 to live in the untamed mountains of Montana. |
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Leading lives that matter : ISBN: 0802829317 OCLC: 63703825 W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. : ©2006. Leading Lives that Matter draws together a wide range of texts -- including fiction, autobiography, and philosophy -- that offer challenge and insight for those who are thinking about what to do with their lives. |
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The travels of Jaimie McPheeters ISBN: 9780307768674 OCLC: 894797541 Doubleday, New York : [1993] Enjoyed by millions since its first publication in 1959, The Travels Of Jaimie McPheeters is the lively story of a 13-year-old boy's adventures on a journey across America in 1849. This million-copy Pulitzer Prize-winning classic details the journey of Jaimie and his father from Kentucky to gold-rush California. |
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The travels of Jaimie McPheeters / ISBN: 0385422229 OCLC: 25914100 Doubleday, New York : [1993] Enjoyed by millions since its first publication in 1959, The Travels Of Jaimie McPheeters is the lively story of a 13-year-old boy's adventures on a journey across America in 1849. This million-copy Pulitzer Prize-winning classic details the journey of Jaimie and his father from Kentucky to gold-rush California. |
| Treasure of Matecumbe ISBN: 0788892800 OCLC: 260575118 Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment ; [California] : [2008] After inheriting a treasure map, young David is joined by four fellow adventurers and begins his search for the treasure despite deadly interference by his late father's archenemy. |
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| Two roads to Guadalupe ISBN: 0583114660 OCLC: 877359254 Mayflower, London : 1969. |
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| W.c. fields : ISBN: 0891901094 OCLC: 948729112 Amereon Ltd, [Place of publication not identified] : 1978. |