Taylor, Peter 1917-1994

A summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor( Book )
31 editions published between 1986 and 2008 in 5 languages and held by 2,558 libraries worldwide
When Phillip Carver is asked by his sisters to help avert their widower father's impending marriage to a younger women, he is forced to confront his domineering siblings, a controlling patriarch, and a flood of memories from his deeply troubled past.

The collected stories of Peter Taylor by Peter Taylor( Book )
14 editions published between 1940 and 2009 in English and held by 1,465 libraries worldwide

The old forest and other stories by Peter Taylor( Book )
10 editions published between 1985 and 1996 in English and Swedish and held by 1,448 libraries worldwide
Fourteen tales of domestic life in the south during the thirties and forties.

Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965( Book )
6 editions published in 1967 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,336 libraries worldwide
Critical essays about Jarrell's poetry, his personal memoirs, and poems about him by admirers.

In the Tennessee country by Peter Taylor( Book )
7 editions published between 1994 and 1998 in English and Chinese and held by 1,116 libraries worldwide
A fictionalized biography of a Southern art historian with particular attention to the gentlemanly Confederacy. By the author of The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court.

In the Miro District and other stories by Peter Taylor( Book )
10 editions published between 1977 and 2002 in English and held by 975 libraries worldwide

The oracle at Stoneleigh Court : stories by Peter Taylor( Book )
6 editions published between 1993 and 1994 in English and held by 816 libraries worldwide
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Summons to Memphis, here is a haunting new collection of stories that examine lost love, retribution, second chances, human perversities ... and ghosts. Peter Taylor draws us again into a world that he has made distinctively his own in his fiction, the comfortable society of affluent Tennesseeans - men and women of good character, with a sense of family, of style, and an awareness of the past that has shaped them. Yet for all.

A woman of means by Peter Taylor( Book )
13 editions published between 1950 and 1996 in English and Spanish and held by 595 libraries worldwide
A novel set in the South of the 1920s that relates the experiences of Quintus Dudley's adolescence after his widowed father marries the wealthy Mrs. Lauterbach who gradually descends into a tragic mental illness.

Conversations with Peter Taylor( Book )
8 editions published in 1987 in English and held by 525 libraries worldwide

The widows of Thornton by Peter Taylor( Book )
8 editions published between 1954 and 1994 in English and Swedish and held by 477 libraries worldwide
A collection of stories about several families who, although now living in different cities, all started out in Thornton, Tennessee, and whose women share a sense of hanging onto the customs and social roles of their southern origins while the men move onto new lives.