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4 unusual facts about Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor


Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor

He was also friends with Robert Penn Warren, Randall Jarrell, Katherine Anne Porter, Jean Stafford, James Thackara, Robie Macauley and other significant literary figures of the time.

For other people named Peter Taylor, see Peter Taylor.

Reelfoot Lake

A contemporary front-page account in the Nashville Banner tells that one lawyer—Captain Quentin Rankin—was murdered by being hanged and then shot, while the other—Colonel R.Z. Taylor (grandfather of author Peter Taylor)—escaped by swimming across the lake in the dark while being shot at by Night Riders.

Trenton, Tennessee

Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor- author of the novel A Summons to Memphis, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1987.



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