James Taylor (author)
James Taylor is an American writer and publisher. He co-founded in 1973, one of Baltimore's oldest small press publishing houses.
Early life and education[]
Taylor is a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park and the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars.
Career[]
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Taylor was literary chairman to the Baltimore mayor's advisory committee on art and culture and was a member of the Maryland governor's panel choosing the state's poet laureate.
In 1999, he co-founded, with Dick Horne, the American Dime Museum in Baltimore, a museum that was part Victorian recreation and part homage to circus, carnival and dime museum culture. Taylor dissolved his partnership with Horne in 2003 and began work on re-establishing his own museum attractions in Washington, D.C., inside of the , which opened in 2006.
Taylor has served as historical consultant to television productions in his capacity as variety arts historian.
He has three books of poetry and fiction to date: Tigerwolves, Tricks of Vision, and Artifacture (featuring illustrations by half a dozen artists). His Shocked and Amazed! - On & Off the Midway, published through Dolphin-Moon since 1995, is the world's only journal devoted to novelty and variety exhibition and life in the sideshow; in 2002, Lyons/Globe Pequot Press published a “Best Of” Shocked and Amazed!
He has worked for the state government of Maryland since 1975.[citation needed]
For 25 years, beginning in 1984, he was an associate professor of English at the Dundalk, Maryland, campus of the Community College of Baltimore County.
References[]
- "What's Weird Here?", Johns Hopkins Magazine, April 1998.
External links[]
- Living people
- University of Maryland, College Park alumni
- People from Dundalk, Maryland
- American male writers