Peter Taylor: Complete Stories 1960-1992: The Library of America #299

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In a career spanning over half a century, Peter Taylor explored in exquisite detail the dramas, large and small, of a Tennessee gentry struggling with the loss of the old certainties in an Old South becoming new. A winner of both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Penn/Faulkner Award and a regular contributor to The New Yorker, he was, in the estimation of Anne Tyler, 'the undisputed master of the short-story form. You could give a creative writing class with no other text but his stories and that class would come out fully educated.'

Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor (1917-1994) was the author of fifty-nine published stories, several plays, and three novels, including A Summons to Memphis (1986) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning In the Tennessee Country (1994). In 1978 he was awarded the Gold Medal in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1993 the PEN/Malamud Award for his lifetime contribution to the art of the short story. Ann Beattie, editor, is the author of nine novels andeleven short story collections. She is a recipient ofthe PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award,both given in acknowledgment of her lifetimecontribution to the art of the story. She is theformer Edgar Allan Poe Professor of Literature andCreative Writing at the University of Virginia, whereone of her colleagues was Peter Taylor.

"The undisputed master of the short-story form." --Anne Tyler "Only Eudora Welty has acomplished a body of fiction so rich, durable, and accessible as Taylor's." --Jonathan Yardley "The stories in these volumes define their time and place with an unrivaled precision." --Michael Gorra, in The New York Review of Books