Ben Taylor

Benjamin Taylor is the author of several works of nonfiction: The Hue and Cry at Our House, a family memoir, will be published by Penguin Books in May 2017; Naples Declared: A Walk Around the Bay was named a Best Book of 2012 by Judith Thurman at The New Yorker; and Proust: The Search, a biography in the Yale Jewish Lives Series, received wide international praise. Taylor has also written two award-winning novels, Tales Out of School and The Book of Getting Even, and edited Saul Bellow: Letters, which was named a Best Book of 2010 by Michiko Kakutani at the New York Times, and Bellow’s There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction. A faculty member at The New School’s Graduate School of Writing, Taylor also teaches iat the Graduate Writing Division of the School of the Arts at Columbia University. A past fellow and current trustee of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, he has also been elected president of the Edward F. Albee Foundation.