D. J. Taylor

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David John Taylor (born 1960) is a British critic, novelist and biographer. After attending Norwich School, he read Modern History at St John's College, Oxford, and has received the 2003 Whitbread Biography Award for his life of George Orwell. Previously a member of Norwich Writers' Circle.

He lives in Norwich and contributes to The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, New Statesman and The Spectator among other publications.

[edit] Works

• Great Eastern Land: from the notebooks of David Castell (1986) novel
• A Vain Conceit: British Fiction in the 1980s (1989)
• Other People: Portraits From The 90's (1990) with Marcus Berkmann
• Real Life (1992) novel
• After the War: The Novel and England since 1945 (1993)
• English Settlement (1996) novel
• After Bathing at Baxter’s (1997) short stories
• Trespass (1998) novel
• Thackeray (1999) biography
• The Comedy Man (2002) novel
• Pretext 6: Punk of Me (2002) guest editor
• Orwell (2003) biography
• Kept (2006) novel
• On The Corinthian Spirit: The Decline of Amateurism In Sport (2006)
• Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940 (2007)