Jonathan Taylor (author)

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

Life

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] His 2024 collection Scablands and Other Stories was the winner of the 2025 Arnold Bennett book prize. ^[3]

Works

Academic

• Mastery and Slavery in Victorian Writing. Palgrave Macmillan. 2002. ISBN   978-0-33399-312-5.
• Figures of Heresy: Radical Theology in English and American Writing, 1800–2000. Sussex Academic Press. 2005. ISBN   978-1-84519-026-2.
• Science and Omniscience in Nineteenth-Century Literature. Sussex Academic Press. 2007. ISBN   978-1-84519-125-2.

Memoirs, Novels and Short Stories

• Take Me Home: Parkinson's, My Father, Myself . Granta Books. 2007. ISBN   978-1-86207-955-7.
• Entertaining Strangers. Salt. 2012. ISBN   978-1-90777-327-3.
• Overheard: Stories to Read Aloud (Ed.). Salt. 2012. ISBN   978-1-90777-326-6.
• Scablands and Other Sories. Salt. 2024. ISBN   9781784632946

Poetry

• Musicolepsy. Shoestring Press. 2012. ISBN   978-1-907356-72-8.
• Cassandra Complex. Shoestring Press. 2018. ISBN   978-1-912524-17-4.

References

1. "Staffordshire Live - Latest local news, sport & business from Staffordshire".
2. "Jonathan Taylor".
3. "University of Leicester writer, Dr Jonathan Taylor wins Arnold Bennett Book Prize for Scablands and Other Stories". University of Leicester. 20 May 2025.

External links

• Official website
• "Crystal Clear Creators"