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Peter Taylor

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3 picks · 1958–1979

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The Old Forest
fiction ·

Writer remembers an incident that took place when he was a young man in Memphis, Tenn. during the thirties. The week before his wedding to a society girl, …

The Captain's Son
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The writer tells the story of his siter's. marriage, which took place in 1935 in Nashville, Tennessee. She married a wealthy man from Memphis, Tolliver…

The Unforgivable
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Hugh Robert's father, William Perkins, gives his impressions of his son from the ages of 16 to 18. The family had three older children who were …