In Search of Taylor Caldwell

New York: Stein and Day, 1981. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8x5x0. First edition. Jacket a bit rubbed with two closed 1/2 inch tears on front edges, jacket lightly toned. 1981 Hard Cover. 172 pp. A candid biography details the fascinating life of novelist Taylor Caldwell, including her meeting with Mark Twain at age eleven, her fifth marriage when in her seventies, and her interest in the occult. "Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell (September 7, 1900 - August 30, 1985) was an Anglo-American 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, Dear and Glorious Physician (about Saint Luke), and Captains and the Kings. Her last major novel, Answer as a Man, appeared in 1980.