Patrick Taylor is a retired medical researcher, professor emeritus at the
University of British Columbia, and best-selling novelist.
Born in 1941 and brought up in
Bangor, Northern Ireland, Taylor studied and practiced medicine in Belfast and rural Ulster before immigrating to Canada in 1970 to work in the field of human infertility. From 1987-1989 he worked at the Bourn Hall Fertility Clinic in association with 2010 Nobel Laureate Sir Robert Edwards. Taylor has received three lifetime achievement awards including the Lifetime Award of Excellence in Reproductive Medicine of the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society.
He has written or contributed to 170 academic papers and six textbooks and also served as editor-in-chief of the ''Canadian Obstetrics and Gynaecology Journal'', as well as writing several medical humour columns and serving as book reviewer for ''Stitches: The Journal of Medical Humour''.
Taylor has published more than fifteen works of creative writing, all set in Northern Ireland. He is best known for his
Irish Country series
The Irish Country Novels are an ongoing series of historical fiction books written by Patrick Taylor and published by Forge Books. The first book in the series, ''An Irish Country Doctor'', was originally published as ''The Apprenticeship of Docto ...
, several of which have been international bestsellers,
"New York Times best sellers - November 4, 2012"
''New York Times'', November 4, 2012. particularly in Canada, where Taylor has resided since 1970.
An earlier work, written with TF Baskett, titled ''The Complete Anthology of En Passant 1989-1999'', is a collection of their shared humour columns.
Taylor now lives on Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada.
Books
Fiction
The
Irish Country series
The Irish Country Novels are an ongoing series of historical fiction books written by Patrick Taylor and published by Forge Books. The first book in the series, ''An Irish Country Doctor'', was originally published as ''The Apprenticeship of Docto ...
Stories of the Irish Troubles
# ''Only Wounded: Ulster Stories''
# ''Now and in the Hour of Our Death''
# ''Pray for Us Sinners''
Nonfiction
* ''The Complete Anthology of En Passant 1989-1999'' (with T.F. Baskett)
References
External links
* About th
Irish Country books
series at Tor Books
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1941 births
Northern Ireland emigrants to Canada
Canadian obstetricians
Canadian male novelists
Living people
University of British Columbia faculty
Canadian male short story writers
21st-century Canadian novelists
Writers from British Columbia
21st-century Canadian short story writers
21st-century Canadian male writers