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Alan Shaw Taylor was born in 1955 in Portland, Maine. He graduated from Colby College in Waterville, Maine in 1977. He went on to earn his PhD. from Brandeis University in 1986. He has become a professor of history at the University of California. Taylor is best known for his contributions to microhistory which he demonstrated in his Pulitzer Prize winning history of William Cooper and the settlement of Cooperstown, New York. In this work, Alan Taylor uses court records, land records, letters and diaries to reconstruct the economic, political and socila history of New England and the settlement of New York. He is also a regular contributor of book reviews and essays to The New Republic. His books include William Cooper's Town: Power & Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic, which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for history and the Bancroft Prize in American History. In 2014, he once again won the Pulitzer Prize for History in his title: The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Country Diaries: A Year in the British Countryside… (more)

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Works by Alan Taylor

The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (Editor) 541 copies, 8 reviews

The Secret Annexe: An Anthology of the World's Greatest War Diarists (Editor) 86 copies

Appointment in Arezzo: a friendship with Muriel Spark 56 copies, 3 reviews

Long Overdue: Book About Libraries and Librarians 44 copies

The Country Diaries: A Year in the British Countryside 38 copies, 4 reviews

Glasgow: The Autobiography 23 copies

What a State!: Is Devolution for Scotland the End of Britain? 2 copies

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Introduction, some editions) 5,061 copies, 166 reviews

Memento Mori (Foreword, some editions) 1,693 copies, 64 reviews

The Girls of Slender Means (Foreword, some editions) 1,281 copies, 56 reviews

A Far Cry from Kensington (Foreword, some editions) 1,233 copies, 55 reviews

The Driver's Seat (Foreword, some editions) 943 copies, 49 reviews

Loitering with Intent (Foreword, some editions) 818 copies, 26 reviews

The Ballad of Peckham Rye (Foreword, some editions) 718 copies, 21 reviews

Aiding and Abetting (Foreword, some editions) 570 copies, 24 reviews

The Finishing School (Foreword, some editions) 515 copies, 25 reviews

The Mandelbaum Gate (Foreword, some editions) 497 copies, 12 reviews

The Comforters (Foreword, some editions) 492 copies, 23 reviews

Symposium (Foreword, some editions) 470 copies, 15 reviews

The Abbess of Crewe (Foreword, some editions) 457 copies, 15 reviews

The Bachelors (Foreword, some editions) 441 copies, 15 reviews

The Public Image (Foreword, some editions) 304 copies, 8 reviews

The Only Problem (Foreword, some editions) 279 copies, 5 reviews

Not to Disturb (Foreword, some editions) 271 copies, 8 reviews

Territorial Rights (Foreword, some editions) 262 copies, 4 reviews

Robinson (Foreword, some editions) 234 copies, 12 reviews

Reality and Dreams (Foreword, some editions) 232 copies, 10 reviews

The Takeover (Foreword, some editions) 211 copies, 10 reviews

The Hothouse by the East River (Foreword, some editions) 196 copies, 9 reviews

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