Taylor Caldwell

Taylor Caldwell
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Taylor Caldwell (1900–1985) was one of the most prolific and widely read authors of the twentieth century. Born Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell in Manchester, England, she moved with her family to Buffalo, New York, in 1907. She started writing stories when she was eight years old and completed her first novel when she was twelve. Married at age eighteen, Caldwell worked as a stenographer and court reporter to help support her family and took college courses at night, earning a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Buffalo in 1931. She adopted the pen name Taylor Caldwell because legendary editor Maxwell Perkins thought her debut novel, Dynasty of Death (1938), would be better received if readers assumed it were written by a man. In a career that spanned five decades, Caldwell published forty novels, many of which were New York Times bestsellers. Her best-known works include the historical sagas The Sound of Thunder (1957), Testimony of Two Men (1968), Captains and the Kings (1972), and Ceremony of the Innocent (1976), and the spiritually themed novels The Listener (1960) and No One Hears But Him (1966). Dear and Glorious Physician (1958), a portrayal of the life of St. Luke, and Great Lion of God (1970), about the life of St. Paul, are among the bestselling religious novels of all time. Caldwell’s last novel, Answer as a Man (1981), hit the New York Times bestseller list before its official publication date. She died at her home in Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1985.

Books By Taylor Caldwell (42 Books)

Great Lion of God
Testimony of Two Men
Time No Longer
Dialogues with the Devil
Glory and the Lightning
Your Sins and Mine
Bright Flows the River
Dynasty of Death

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The Sound of Thunder
The Devil's Advocate
A Pillar of Iron
Captains and the Kings
Answer as a Man
No One Hears but Him
Ceremony of the Innocent
I, Judas
The Romance of Atlantis
The Collected Novels Volume One
The Balance Wheel
The Strong City
Never Victorious, Never Defeated
Tender Victory
To Look and Pass
There Was a Time
Let Love Come Last
Maggie—Her Marriage
On Growing Up Tough
The Final Hour
The Turnbulls
This Side of Innocence
Melissa
The Wide House
The Earth Is the Lord's
The Arm and the Darkness
The Eagles Gather
Wicked Angel
Grandmother and the Priests
Unto All Men
The Late Clara Beame
A Prologue to Love
Dear and Glorious Physician
The Listener

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