Inventory of the Jody Jones Hunter and Sian McLain Hunter Collection of Works by Peter Taylor, 1946-1994

Abstract

Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor (8 January 1917-2 November 1994) was an American author and writer.

Collection includes periodical and print publications with writings by and about Taylor, clippings of reviews and obituaries, and a small amount of manuscript material.

Descriptive Summary

Repository: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University
Creator: Hunter, Jody Jones.
Title: Jody Jones Hunter and Sian McLain Hunter Collection of Works by Peter Taylor, 1946-1994
Language of Material: English
Extent: 1.0 Linear Feet, 100 Items
Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Collection includes periodical and print publications with writings by and about Taylor, clippings of reviews and obituaries, and a small amount of manuscript material. The majority of the collection consists of literary journals with stories, plays, or poems by Taylor, including issues of The Kenyon Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Sewanee Review. One manuscript item of note is the first typescript page of In The Tennessee Country, heavily corrected in pencil in Taylor's hand.

Many items were removed for individual cataloging.

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Contents of the Collection

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Peter Taylor materials, 1946-1994

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Taylor's writings in periodicals

There (story) in The Kenyon Review, Vol. XXVI, No. 1., Winter 1964.

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"A Stand in the Mountains" (play) in The Kenyon Review, Vol. XXX, No. 2, 1968.

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"Dean of Men" (story) in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 45, No 2., Spring 1969.

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"Daphne's Lover" (story) in The Sewanee Review, Vol. LXXVII, No. 2, Spring 1969.

Also contains a poem by Eleanor Ross Taylor.

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"The Whistler" (play) in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 46, No. 2., Spring 1970.

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"Three Plays" in The Sewanee Review, Vol. LXXX, No. 2, April-June 1972.

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"The Early Guest" (play) in Shenandoah, Vol. XXIV, No. 2, Winter 1973.

Also contains "An Interview with Peter Taylor" by Stephen Goodwin, and a story ("Spending") by Anne Tyler.

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"His Other Life," "Peach Trees Gone Wild in the Lane," and "The Megalopolitans" (poems) in Ploughshares, Vol. 2, No. 4, 1975

Also contains 2 poems by Eleanor Ross Taylor.

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"Three Heroines" (story-poem) in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 51, No 2., Spring 1975.

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Periodicals about Taylor

"A Garland for Peter Taylor on His Sixtieth Birthday," special issue of Shenandoah, Vol. XXVIII, No. 2., Winter 1977.

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"PW Interviews Peter Taylor," in Publisher's Weekly, 18 January 1985.

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Taylor's writings in books

"The Old Forest" (story) in William Abrahams' Prize Stories 1980: The O. Henry Awards. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980.

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Books about Taylor

Robison, James C. Peter Taylor: A Study of the Short Fiction. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1988.

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Manuscripts and miscellaneous

First page of the original typescript of Taylor's last novel, In the Tennessee Country

Heavily corrected in pencil in Taylor's hand, with his initialled heading "from new novel. PT. September 16, 1987."

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Photocopies of 7 letters from Taylor to Robie Macauley, 1946-1948

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Clippings: Reviews, 1984-1994

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Clippings: Obituaries, 1994

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Miscellaneous

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Historical Note

Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor (8 January 1917-2 November 1994) was an American author and writer. He was born in Trenton, Tennessee, and lived with his family in Missouri as a child before attending high school in Memphis. Taylor attended college at Southwestern and Vanderbilt before graduating from Kenyon College in 1940. In addition to his writing career, Taylor was also a professor at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now UNC Greensboro), Kenyon College, Ohio State University, and the University of Virginia. He was married to poet Eleanor Ross Taylor.

Taylor's works included short stories, plays, and three novels: A Woman of Means (1950), A Summons to Memphis (1986; winner of the Pulitzer Prize), and In the Tennessee Country (1994).