Robert Lewis Taylor was born in Carbondale, Illinois, in 1912 and graduated from the University of Illinois in 1933. He wrote for The New Yorker and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
His books include biographies of W. C. Fields and Winston Churchill and the novels The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1958) and A Journey to Matecumbe (1961). The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, set during the California Gold Rush, won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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