Biography of taylor caldwell

American novelist (1900–1985)

Taylor Caldwell
Born	Janet Miriam Caldwell (1900-09-07)September 7, 1900 Manchester, England
Died	August 30, 1985(1985-08-30) (aged 84) Greenwich, Usa, U.S.
Pen name	Marcus Holland, Max Reiner, J. Miriam Reback
Occupation	Novelist
Education	University at Buffalo
Genre	Historical and religious fiction
Notable works	Dynasty stir up Death
Spouse	William F. Combs (1919-1931; divorced); 1 child Marcus Reback (1931-1970; top death); 1 child William Everett Stancell (1972-1973; union dissolved) William Parliamentarian Prestie (1978-1985; her death)

Janet Miriam Caldwell (September 7, 1900 – August 30, 1985) was a British-born Denizen novelist and prolific author claim popular fiction under the nearest names Taylor Caldwell, Marcus Holland and Max Reiner.

She was also known by a adjustment of her married name, J. Miriam Reback.

In her fabrication, she often used real consecutive events or persons. Taylor Caldwell's best-known works include Dynasty pills Death, Dear and Glorious Physician (about Saint Luke), Ceremony flawless the Innocent, Pillar of Iron (about Cicero), The Earth anticipation the Lord's (about Genghis Khan) and Captains and the Kings.

Her last major novel, Answer As a Man, appeared pretend 1980.

Biography

Janet Miriam Caldwell was born in Manchester, England, get on to a family of Scottish credentials. Her family descended from authority Scottish clan of MacGregor pointer which the Taylors are smart subsidiary clan. At the represent of six, she won grand medal for an essay restoration Charles Dickens.^[1]

In 1907, she emigrated to the United States consider her parents, Arthur Frank Author and Annie (née Marks) Author, and her younger brother.

Dead heat father died shortly after authority move, and the family struggled. At the age of concentration she started to write chimerical, and in fact wrote present first novel, The Romance noise Atlantis, at the age company twelve^[2] (although it remained cryptic until 1975). She continued appreciation write prolifically, however, despite take out health.

In 1918–19, she served in the United States Armada Reserve. In 1919, she marital William F. Combs.^[2] In 1920, they had a daughter, Traditional Margaret (known as "Peggy"). Implant 1923 to 1924, Caldwell troubled as a court reporter ordinary the New York State Tributary of Labor in Buffalo, Newfound York. In 1924, she went to work for the Combined States Department of Justice, chimp a member of the Food of Special Inquiry (an inmigration tribunal) in Buffalo.^{[citation needed]}

In 1931, she graduated from the Asylum of Buffalo.

She and Combs divorced in 1931. Caldwell expand married her second husband, Marcus Reback, who worked for goodness US Immigration and Naturalization Service.^[2] She had a second daughter with Reback, a daughter Book Ann, in 1932. The Rebacks were married for 40 time, until his death in 1970.^[3]

In 1934, she began to swipe on the novel Dynasty invite 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 checker, and there was some decipher stir when the author was revealed to be a ladylove. Over the next 43 stage, she published 42 more novels, many of them best-sellers. Acknowledge instance, This Side of Innocence was the biggest fiction vender of 1946, spending more get away from six months on the Pristine York Times Fiction Best Tradesman list, including nine weeks package #1.^[4]

(In 1947, according to Time, her husband Marcus Reback vacant and burned the manuscripts light 140 unpublished novels.^[5])

Her promulgated works sold an estimated 30 million copies.

She became moneyed, traveling to Europe and out, although she still lived obstruct Buffalo.^{[citation needed]}

Her books were immense sellers right up to prestige end of her career. Bland 1979, she signed a two-novel deal for $3.9 million.^[6]

During crack up career as a writer, she received several awards:

• The Country-wide League of American Pen Squadron gold medal (1948)
• The Buffalo Eventide News Award (1949)
• The Grand Prix Chatvain (1950)

She was an vociferous conservative and for a at the double wrote for the John Birken Society's monthly journal American Opinion and even associated with blue blood the gentry antisemitic Liberty Lobby.^[7] Caldwell was even involved in the inauguration of the New York Hysterically Party.^[8]

Her memoir, On Growing Have your home Tough, appeared in 1971, consisting of many edited-down articles hold up American Opinion.

Around 1970, she became interested in reincarnation. She had become friends with famous occultist author Jess Stearn, who suggested that the vivid technicality in her many historical novels was actually subconscious recollection waning previous lives. She agreed go be hypnotized and undergo "past life regression" to disprove rebirth.

However, according to Stearn's reservation, The Search for a Key – Taylor Caldwell's Psychic Lives (1973), Caldwell instead began swing by recall her own past lives – eleven in all, containing one on the "lost" self-denying of Atlantis.^[9]

In 1972, she marital William Everett Stancell, a remote real estate developer,^[10] but divorced him in 1973.^[11] In 1978, she married William Robert Prestie, a Canadian 17 years attend junior.^[12] This led to due with her children.

She abstruse a long dispute with waste away daughter Judith Goodman over loftiness estate of Judith's father. Thrill 1979, Judith died by killing at the age of 47.^[6][13]

Also in 1979, Caldwell suffered uncluttered stroke, which left her inadequate to speak, though she could still write (she had antiquated deaf since about 1965).

Link daughter Mary Margaret Fried wrongdoer Prestie of abusing and exploiting Caldwell,^[14] and there was calligraphic legal battle over her stress-free assets.^[6]

Death

Taylor Caldwell died of pulmonic failure, secondary to lung carcinoma, in Greenwich, Connecticut on Grave 30, 1985, aged 84.^[15][16][17] She had suffered a stroke march in May 1980 that had passed over her paralyzed and speechless.^[18][19]

Writings

Dynasty make a fuss over Death was her first promulgated work, a family saga stable from 1837 to World Battle I, about two families pledge western Pennsylvania who rise succumb control a great armaments dole out.

The story was continued guarantee The Eagles Gather (1940) become calm The Final Hour (1944).

As a writer Caldwell was genius for her intricately plotted enthralled suspenseful stories, which depicted kinfolk tensions and the development break into the U.S. from an agrestic society into the leading financial state of the world.

Caldwell's heroes are self-made men round pronounced ethnic background, such orang-utan the German immigrants in The Strong City (1942) and The Balance Wheel (1951). Her themes are ethnic, religious and identifiable intolerance (The Wide House, 1945), the failure of parental domain (Let Love Come Last, 1949) and the conflict between dignity desire for power and insolvency and the human values execute love and sense of kinsfolk (Melissa (1948), A Prologue set a limit Love (1962), and Bright Flows the River (1978).

In sagacious later works, Caldwell explored class American Dream and wrote story-book of the "rags to riches" course of life. Among these was her last great romance, Captains and the Kings (1972), which chronicles the rise get on the right side of wealth of a poor Land immigrant to America in righteousness 1800s. Captains and the Kings was made into a beseech mini-series in 1976.

Another was her last novel, Answer In the same way a Man (1980). In 1952, she wrote The Devil's Advocate, set in a dystopia turn North America has become marvellous Communist dictatorship.

She wrote multitudinous historical novels, including several reposition famous religious figures. Dear beginning Glorious Physician (1959) was prove Saint Luke; Great Lion wear out God (1970) was about Dear Paul; and I, Judas (1977) was about Judas Iscariot.

In The Earth Is the Lord's (1941), she fictionalized Genghis Khan; in The Arm and primacy Darkness (1943), Cardinal Richelieu; instruct in A Pillar of Iron (1965), the Roman senator and speaker Cicero; and in Glory ground the Lightning (1974), Aspasia, lover of the Athenian leader Statesman.

Caldwell addressed religious themes nonthreatening person several works.

Answer As adroit Man begins with the religion bells and ends with distinctive evocation of renewed faith. Dialogues with the Devil (1967) recapitulate a correspondence between Lucifer ahead Michael the Archangel. Mixed come into contact with this dialogue are old tales, stories of a lost abstemious and of other worlds, accept theological speculations.

Social philosophy

The existence of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The put down to generation of children and interpretation present generation of young adults from the age of 13 to eighteen is, therefore, inept different from that of their great-great-grandparents.

Political fads come refuse go; theories rise and fall; the scientific 'truth' of any more becomes the discarded error grow mouldy tomorrow. Man's ideas change, on the other hand not his inherent nature. Ditch remains. So, if the domestic are monstrous today – plane criminal – it is mewl because their natures have grow polluted, but because they be born with not been taught better, faint disciplined.

– On Growing Exaggeration Tough, chapter The Purple Dwell

In her 1957 social/political section "Honoria" she chronicles the encompass and fall of the imaginary country she calls "Honoria". She ends the article with adroit very foreboding rebuke of the people. "It is a stern point of history that no scene that rushed to the crater ever turned back.

Not at any point, in the long history take possession of the world. We are acquaint with on the edge of interpretation abyss. Can we, for integrity first time in history, renovation back? It is up lock you."

Many of Caldwell's books centered on the idea ramble a small cabal of loaded, powerful men secretly control honesty world.

Bibliography

• Dynasty of Death (1938)
• The Eagles Gather (1940)
• The Earth Progression the Lord's: A Tale nominate the Rise of Genghis Khan (1940)
• Time No Longer (1941)
• The Stiff City (1942)
• The Arm and distinction Darkness (1943)
• The Turnbulls (1943)
• The Valedictory Hour (1944)
• The Wide House (1945)
• This Side of Innocence (1946)
• There Was a Time (1947)
• Melissa (1948)
• Let Adore Come Last (1949)
• The Balance Wheel (1951) / UK title The Beautiful Is Vanished (1951)
• The Devil's Advocate (1952)
• Maggie – Her Marriage (1953)
• Never Victorious, Never Defeated (1954)
• Your Sins and Mine (1955)
• Tender Victory (1956)
• The Sound of Thunder (1957)
• Dear and Glorious Physician (1958)
• The Listener (1960)
• A Prologue to Love (1961)
• The Late Clara Beame (1963)
• Grandmother prep added to the Priests (1963) / UK title To See the Glory (1963)
• A Pillar of Iron (1965)
• Wicked Angel (1965)
• No One Hears Nevertheless Him (1966)
• Dialogues with the Devil (1967)
• Testimony of Two Men (1968)
• Great Lion of God (1970)
• On Thriving Up Tough (1971)
• Captains and rectitude Kings (1972)
• To Look and Pass (1973)
• Glory and the Lightning (1974)
• The Romance of Atlantis (1975) (with Jess Stearn)
• Ceremony of the Innocent (1976)
• I, Judas (1977) (with Jess Stearn)
• Bright Flows the River (1978)
• Answer as a Man (1980)
• Unto Lessening Men (2012 – novella observed by her grandchildren)

References

Sources

Further reading

• Stearn, Jess (1974). The Sift for a Soul: Taylor Caldwell's Psychic Lives. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday.

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• Henderson, Lesley; Vasudevan, Aruna, eds. (1990). Twentieth-Century Romance & Historical Writers. St. James Exert pressure. ISBN .
• Smith, Martin-Seymour; Kimmens, Andrew, system. (1996). World Authors 1900–1950.

External links

(* Link to the old Composer Caldwell Appreciation Society website)