Tag: Peter Taylor

“I can allow myself to speculate on all that now, though it would not have occurred to me to do so at the time.”

When writing about something that happened years ago, should you stick to the story, or should you interject speculations about what could have happened? Should you also comment on your speculations? People who write stories about things that happened to them regularly consider these questions. Pulitzer Prize recipient Peter Taylor… Read More

“I felt that this was my last moment to reach out and understand something of the world.”

Taylor croppedPeter Taylor, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Penn Faulkner Award, is virtually unknown today. In a 1985 review, the New York Times said: “His narrative method is to hover over the action, to digress from it, to explore byways and relationships, to speculate on alternative possibilities – … Read More