Taylor Caldwell
Overview
 
Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell (September 7, 1900–August 30, 1985) was an Anglo
England
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-American
United States
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 novelist and prolific author of popular fiction, also known by the pen names Marcus Holland and Max Reiner, and by her married name of J. Miriam Reback.

In her fiction, she often used real historical events or persons. Taylor Caldwell's best-known works include Dynasty of Death
Dynasty of Death
Dynasty of Death was the debut novel of the Anglo-American writer Taylor Caldwell . When Caldwell submitted the manuscript to Maxwell Perkins in 1937, she was an unknown housewife from Buffalo, New York...

, Dear and Glorious Physician (about Saint Luke
Luke the Evangelist
Luke the Evangelist was an Early Christian writer whom Church Fathers such as Jerome and Eusebius said was the author of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles...

), and Captains and the Kings.
Quotations

"A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government."

"The Devil's Advocate", 1952

"I shudder at the very thought of being born again into this world. Life to me . . . has been a monstrous, painful, agonizing affair, and the idea of repeating such an existence - even if better in a way - is horrifying to me. . . . I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it."

"The Search for a Soul" by Jess Stearn|Jess Stearn

"It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you."

"Honoria", "The New American", Vol. 19, No. 20, 2003-10-06

 
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