Alan Taylor
Writer
Too many formerlies to mention. Presented and written innumerable TV and radio programmes and for the past decade have been half of the underperforming Scottish team on Radio 4’s Round Britain Quiz. Founding editor of The Scottish Review of Books. Was a Booker judge. Have written for countless newspapers and magazines from Life and Work to the New Yorker. Still waiting to hear from the Pulitzer people.
Too many formerlies to mention. Presented and written innumerable TV and radio programmes and for the past decade have been half of the underperforming Scottish team on Radio 4’s Round Britain Quiz. Founding editor of The Scottish Review of Books. Was a Booker judge. Have written for countless newspapers and magazines from Life and Work to the New Yorker. Still waiting to hear from the Pulitzer people.
Latest articles from Alan Taylor
Fay Weldon...and a St Andrews hotel that could have been the model for Fawlty Towers
Fay Wheldon, Born, 22 September, 1931 - Died, 4 January, 2023
Obituary
Ian Jack, outstanding journalist who in taut and evocative prose recalled Britain's past
Born: 7 February 7, 1945;
Obituary: Joan Didion, essayist and novelist who was an incisive chronicler of American culture
Born: December 5, 1934;
A precious place for precious things: Alan Taylor reviews a lucid new history of the library
The Library: A Fragile History
Rambles around Scotland with Jorge Louis Borges: Alan Taylor reviews Jay Parini’s eccentric gem of a memoir
Borges and Me: An Encounter
Fan's-eye view of an elusive star: Paul Morley's Bob Dylan biography reviewed
You Lose Yourself You Reappear: Bob Dylan and the Voices of a Lifetime