Benjamin Taylor (born 1952) is an American writer whose work has appeared in a number of publications including ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Threepenny Review'', ''

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'', ''Provincetown Arts'' and ''The Reading Room''. He is a founding member of the Graduate Writing Program faculty of

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in New York City, and has also taught at

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, the Poetry Center of the

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and

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. He has served as Secretary of the Board of Trustees of

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, has been a fellow of the

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and was awarded the Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger Residency at

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. A Trustee of the

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, he is also a Fellow of the

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and a

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for 2012 - 2013. Taylor's biography of

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, ''Proust: The Search,'' was published in October 2015 by

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as part of its newly launched Yale Jewish Lives series.

Early life and education

Benjamin Taylor was born and raised in

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. He received his B.A. from Haverford College and his Ph.D. in English and comparative literature from

where his teachers included Joseph A. Mazzeo,

Steven Marcus Steven Paul Marcus (December 13, 1928 – April 25, 2018) was an American academic and literary critic who published influential psychoanalytic analyses of the novels of Charles Dickens and Victorian pornography. He was George Delacorte Professo ...

Paul Oskar Kristeller Paul Oskar Kristeller (May 22, 1905 in Berlin – June 7, 1999 in New York, United States) was an important scholar of Renaissance humanism. He was awarded the Haskins Medal in 1992. He was last active as Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Col ...

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, Michael Wood, Carl Woodring,

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, and

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Career

Taylor's debut novel, ''Tales Out of School'' (1995), is set on

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, Texas in 1907 and revolves around the Mehmels, a once prosperous

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immigrant family whose fortunes are in decline. The novel won the 1996 Harold J. Ribalow Prize and was reissued in 2008 by Zoland Books. Taylor's second novel, ''The Book of Getting Even'' (Steerforth Press, 2008), tells the story of Gabriel Geismar, a young aspiring astronomer who becomes involved with a charismatic but troubled family named Hundert.

Philip Roth Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophicall ...

wrote that "''The Book of Getting Even'' is among the most original novels I have read in recent years... tis exuberant and charming and heartbroken by turns." Taylor's novel was one of three 2009 Barnes & Noble Discover Award winners, a 2008 ''Los Angeles Times ''Favorite Book of the Year, and a Ferro-Grumley Prize Finalist. In October 2009, ''The Book of Getting Even'' appeared as ''El Libro de la Venganza'' in Spain, where it was named a best book of the year by ''

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''. In addition to his fiction, Taylor has published a book-length essay titled ''Into the Open: Reflections on Genius and Modernity'' (

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, 1995) in which he examines three influential minds—

Walter Pater Walter Horatio Pater (4 August 1839 – 30 July 1894) was an English essayist, art critic and literary critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists. His first and most often reprinted book, ''Studies in the History of the Re ...

Paul Valéry Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry (; 30 October 1871 – 20 July 1945) was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. In addition to his poetry and fiction (drama and dialogues), his interests included aphorisms on art, history, letters, mu ...

, and

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—and how they viewed a figure widely considered the first great modern genius,

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. Taylor's review of ''Muriel Spark: A Biography'' by Martin Stannard appeared in the May 2010 issue of

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. He has also edited ''Saul Bellow: Letters'', which appeared on November 4, 2010 from

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. The book is the collected correspondence of Canadian-born American author and

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and includes Bellow's letters to such authors as

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Lionel Trilling Lionel Mordecai Trilling (July 4, 1905 – November 5, 1975) was an American literary critic, short story writer, essayist, and teacher. He was one of the leading U.S. critics of the 20th century who analyzed the contemporary cultural, social, ...

Alfred Kazin Alfred Kazin (June 5, 1915 – June 5, 1998) was an American writer and literary critic. He wrote often about the immigrant experience in early twentieth century America. Early life Like many other New York Intellectuals, Alfred Kazin was ...

Robert Penn Warren Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the lite ...

J. F. Powers James Farl Powers (July 8, 1917June 12, 1999) was an American novelist and short story writer who often drew his inspiration from developments in the Catholic Church, and was known for his studies of Catholic priests in the Midwest. Although not a ...

John Berryman John Allyn McAlpin Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.; October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet and scholar. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in th ...

John Cheever John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American short story writer and novelist. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan; the Westchester suburbs; ...

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Wright Morris Wright Marion Morris (January 6, 1910 – April 25, 1998) was an American novelist, photographer, and essayist. He is known for his portrayals of the people and artifacts of the Great Plains in words and pictures, as well as for experimenting wi ...

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, Philip Roth,

Cynthia Ozick Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist. Biography Cynthia Ozick was born in New York City, the second of two children. She moved to the Bronx with her Belarusian-Jewish parents from Hlusk, ...

Stanley Elkin Stanley Lawrence Elkin (May 11, 1930 – May 31, 1995) was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. His extravagant, satirical fiction revolves around American consumerism, popular culture, and male-female relationships. Biograp ...

Allan Bloom Allan David Bloom (September 14, 1930 – October 7, 1992) was an American philosopher, classicist, and academician. He studied under David Grene, Leo Strauss, Richard McKeon, and Alexandre Kojève. He subsequently taught at Cornell Uni ...

, Daniel Patrick Moynihan and

Martin Amis Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949) is a British novelist, essayist, memoirist, and screenwriter. He is best known for his novels ''Money'' (1984) and ''London Fields'' (1989). He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir '' ...

. A selection of the letters appeared in the April 26, 2010 issue of ''

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''. Of ''Saul Bellow: Letters'',

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, in ''

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'', wrote "Taylor has selected and edited and annotated these letters with exquisite judgment and care. This is an ''elegantissimo'' book. Our literature's debt to Taylor, if the culture still cares, is considerable" and ''New York Times'' literary critic

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chose ''Letters'' as one of her "Top Ten Books of 2010." Benjamin Taylor's travel memoir, ''Naples Declared: A Walk Around the Bay'', was released on May 10, 2012 by Marian Wood Books, a division of

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(USA).

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named ''Naples Declared'' as one of its "Top Ten Travel Books of 2012." ''Naples Declared'' was also named a Best Book of 2012 by ''The New Yorker'', where Judith Thurman wrote, "It is a work of voluptuous erudition; a meditation on place and displacement; a paean to the chance encounter—a worldly adventure story...I found it transporting." His edition of the collected non-fiction of Saul Bellow, ''There Is Simply Too Much to Think About'', was published by Viking in March 2015. Writing in the ''

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'', Nathaniel Rich described the collection as "magnificent...an intimate portrait of Bellow’s defiant, irascible mind, and a milestone of twentieth-century criticism...The collection offers a triumphant overabundance of riches—which is exactly why we read Bellow in the first place." Taylor's biography of Marcel Proust, ''Proust: The Search'', was chosen as a "Best Book of 2015" by

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of ''

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'' and

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of the ''New York Times Book Review''. In 2017,

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released ''The Hue and Cry at Our House: A Year Remembered,'' a memoir of one year in Taylor's childhood in

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, following the assassination of President

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. It won the 2017 ''Los Angeles Times'' – Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose. Later that year,

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released ''Debriefing: Collected Stories of Susan Sontag,'' which was edited by Taylor. ''Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth'', was published in May 2020 by Penguin Books. Taylor appeared on the March 16, 2012, episode of the

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series '' Primetime: What Would You Do?''. He was shown berating an actress portraying an abusive fashion editor.''Primetime from ABC News''
"What would you do: Snobby rich customer"
YouTube, retrieved March 23, 2012

Bibliography

;Non-fiction * ''Into the Open: Reflections on Genius and Modernity'' (1995) * ''Saul Bellow: Letters'', Editor (2010) * ''Naples Declared'' (2012) * ''There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Non-Fiction of Saul Bellow,'' Editor (2015) * ''Proust: The Search'' (2015) * ''The Hue and Cry at Our House: A Year Remembered'' (2017) * ''Debriefing: Collected Stories of Susan Sontag,'' Editor (2017) * ''Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth'' (2020) ;Fiction * ''Tales Out of School'' (1995) * ''The Book of Getting Even'' (2008) ;Other
"Prodigal Son"
essay by Taylor that appears in ''Loss Within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS'', edited by Edmund White, The University of Wisconsin Press, 2001

References

External links

* ;Interviews
''"Indignation'' Day"
Video of Benjamin Taylor's interview with Philip Roth, live webcast sponsored by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, September 16, 2008
"Fiction as Fibbing: Benjamin Taylor"
Interview with Carlin M. Wragg of Open Loop Press, November 2008
"The Epistolary Adventures of Saul Bellow"
Interview with Evan R. Goldstein in ''

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'', July 28, 2010
Bellow in His Dream Car: An Interview with Benjamin Taylor
''

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Magazine'', November 4, 2010
Reading Saul Bellow's Letters
Interview with Benjamin Taylor, Gloria Cronin and

Nathan Englander Nathan Englander (born 1970) is an American short story writer and novelist. His debut short story collection, ''For the Relief of Unbearable Urges,'' was published by Alfred A. Knopf, in 1999. His second collection, '' What We Talk About When We ...

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's ''

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'' with

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, November 15, 2010
"Mr. Bellow's Planet"
Interview with Benjamin Taylor, ''

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'', November 16, 2010
"Writers' Letters: A Roundtable"
''

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'',

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, January 28, 2011.
"Philip Roth: I'm not caged in by reality,"
Benjamin Taylor interviews Philip Roth, '' The Telegraph'', May 20, 2011
"Saul Bellow in Life and Letters"
Panel with Benjamin Taylor and Joyce Carol Oates, moderated by

Peter Orner Peter Orner is an American writer. He is the author of two novels, two story collections and a book of essays. Orner holds the Professorship of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College and was formerly a professor of creative writing at ...

, Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, March 31, 2012
"Benjamin Taylor in Conversation with Adam Fitzgerald,"
''

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'', September 2012 ;Other
"Reading: ''Naples Declared: A Walk Around the Bay,''"
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