Benjamin Taylor (author), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Benjamin Taylor (author)

American writer

Date of Birth: 20-Aug-1952

Place of Birth: Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Profession: writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Benjamin Taylor (born 1952) is an American writer whose work has appeared in a number of publications including Harper's, Esquire, Bookforum, BOMB, the Los Angeles Times, Le Monde, The Georgia Review, Raritan Quarterly Review, Threepenny Review, Salmagundi, Provincetown Arts and The Reading Room.
He is a founding member of the Graduate Writing Program faculty of The New School in New York City, and has also taught at Washington University in St.
Louis, the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, Bennington College and Columbia University.
He has served as Secretary of the Board of Trustees of PEN American Center, has been a fellow of the MacDowell Colony and was awarded the Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger Residency at Yaddo.
A Trustee of the Edward F.
Albee Foundation, Inc., he is also a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University and a Guggenheim Fellow for 2012 - 2013.
Taylor's biography of Marcel Proust, Proust: The Search, was published in October 2015 by Yale University Press as part of its newly launched Yale Jewish Lives series.