Walking Across Egypt – SPECIAL ASSOCIATION COPY – FIRST EDITION

Description: Check out my other items -- lots of books signed by authors, actors and actresses, and I'll be adding more soon! AMAZING ASSOCIATION COPY WITH ORIGINAL PURCHASE RECEIPT This is a beautifully copy of Walking Across Egypt inscribed by Clyde Edgerton to the late Peter "Pete" Taylor and Eleanor Ross Taylor, both celebrated authors. Included with the book is the original purchase receipt from Thomas Dorn Literary First Editions to Kate Sweeney (another accomplished author and, at the time, husband to Lynn Naron, a well-known book collector), dated August 11, 1997 in the amount of $400.00. Peter Taylor, Jr. (January 8, 1917 – November 2, 1994), born Matthew Hillsman Taylor, Jr. and known professionally as Peter Taylor, was an American novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Born and raised in Tennessee and St. Louis, Missouri, he wrote frequently about the urban South in his stories and novels. Considered to be one of the finest American short story writers, Taylor made his fictional milieu the urban South, with references to its history. His characters, usually middle or upper-class people, often are living in a time of change in the 20th century, and struggle to discover and define their roles in society. His collection The Old Forest and Other Stories (1985) won the PEN/Faulkner Award. Taylor also wrote three novels, including A Summons to Memphis in 1986, for which he won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and In the Tennessee Country in 1994. Taylor taught literature and writing at Kenyon and at the University of Virginia. He was married for fifty-one years to the poet Eleanor Ross Taylor and died in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1994. His papers are held at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia. Eleanor Ross Taylor (June 30, 1920 – December 30, 2011) was an American poet who published six collections of verse from 1960 to 2009. Her work received little recognition until 1998, but thereafter received several major poetry prizes. Describing her most recent poetry collection, Kevin Prufer writes, "I cannot imagine the serious reader — poet or not — who could leave Captive Voices unmoved by the work of this supremely gifted poet who skips so nimbly around our sadnesses and fears, never directly addressing them, suggesting, instead, their complex resistance to summary." In 1998, she was awarded the Shelley Memorial Award by the Poetry Society of America, which honors one or two poets each year "with reference to genius and need". She received the 2000 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, which honors a "substantial and distinguished career". In 2009, she was elected to the Fellowship of Southern Writers and was awarded the Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize. In March 2010, her volume Captive Voices: New and Selected Poems, 1960–2008 received the William Carlos Williams Award for the year's best volume of poetry from a small or a university press. On April 13, 2010 the Poetry Foundation announced that Taylor would receive the 2010 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize ($100,000 Prize), which honors poets whose "lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition.” Please use the photos to make your own determination and/or confirmation of each item's edition, printing, condition, authenticity or any other details that are important to you. I'm happy to upload or send additional pics and to answer any questions related to the item.

Price: 110 USD

Location: New Orleans, Louisiana

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