Timothy Taylor

Timothy Taylor is the bestselling author of novels about contemporary people with contemporary problems, almost invariably of their own making. Taylor is also an award-winning magazine journalist who has written about food, travel, sports, visual art business, physics, and once about a group of Russian mathematicians who believe the Middle Ages were a fiction added to the official account of human history by the Vatican.

 

Taylor has been a food enthusiast since childhood, when his father paid him a nickel a piece to eat hot pickled peppers. His home cuisine was Latin/North European much like the main character of his book The Rise and Fall of Magic Wolf. His family also once lived in Venezuela where he was born and where, at the time, they had a pet ocelot. Taylor taught himself to cook at university using a recipe box given to him by his mother and a copy of Jacques Pépin’s La Technique.