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Jonathan P Taylor (born 1973) is a British author, poet and lecturer.

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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] He lives in Leicestershire with his wife, poet Maria Taylor, and their twin daughters. [2]

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Memoirs, Novels and Short Stories

Poetry

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