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| Born | September 7, 1900 Manchester, England |
|---|---|
| Died | August 30, 1985 (aged 84) Greenwich, Connecticut |
| Occupation | Novelist |
Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell (September 7, 1900–August 30, 1985) was an Anglo-American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction, also known by the pen names
Marcus Holland and Max Reiner, and by her married name of J. Miriam Reback.
In her fiction, she often used real historical events or persons.
Taylor Caldwell's best-known works include Dynasty of Death,
Dear and Glorious Physician (about Saint Luke), and Captains and the Kings.
Her last major novel, Answer as a Man, appeared in 1980.
Biographical sketch
Taylor Caldwell was born in Manchester, England, into a family of Scottish background.
Her family descended from the Scottish clan of MacGregor of which the Taylors are a subsidiary clan.
In 1907 she emigrated to the United States with her parents and younger brother.
Her father died shortly after the move, and the family struggled. At the age of eight she started to write stories, and in fact wrote her first novel, The Romance of Atlantis, at the age of twelve[1] (although it remained unpublished until 1975). She continued to write prolifically, however, despite ill health. (In 1947, according to TIME magazine, her husband Marcus Reback discarded and burned the manuscripts of 140 unpublished novels.[2])
In 1918-1919, she served in the United States Navy Reserve. In 1919 she married William F. Combs. In 1920, they had a daughter, Mary (known as "Peggy"). From 1923 to 1924 she was a court reporter in New York State Department of Labor in Buffalo, New York. In 1924, she went to work for the United States Department of Justice, as a member of the Board of Special Inquiry (an immigration tribunal) in Buffalo. In 1931 she graduated from the University of Buffalo, and also was divorced from William Combs.
Caldwell then married her second husband, Marcus Reback, a fellow Justice employee. She had a second child with Reback, a daughter Judith, in 1932. They were married for 40 years, until his death in 1971.
In 1934, she began to work on the novel Dynasty of Death, which she and Reback completed in collaboration.
It was published in 1938 and became a best-seller. "Taylor Caldwell" was presumed to be a man, and there was some public stir when the author was revealed to be a woman.
Over the next 43 years, she published 42 more novels, many of them best-sellers.
For instance, This Side of Innocence was the biggest fiction seller of 1946.[2] Her works sold an estimated 30 million copies. She became wealthy, traveling to Europe and elsewhere, though she still lived near Buffalo.
Her books were big sellers right up to the end of her career. In 1979, she signed a two-novel deal for $3.9 million. [3]
During her career as a writer, she received several awards.
The National League of American Pen Women
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