Taylor Caldwell

Taylor Caldwell (1900–1985) was one of the most prolific and widely read authors of the twentieth century. Born Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell in Manchester, England, she moved with her family to Buffalo, New York, in 1907. She started writing stories when she was eight years old and completed her first novel when she was twelve. Married at age eighteen, Caldwell worked as a stenographer and court reporter to help support her family and took college courses at night, earning a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Buffalo in 1931. She adopted the pen name Taylor Caldwell because legendary editor Maxwell Perkins thought her debut novel, Dynasty of Death (1938), would be better received if readers assumed it were written by a man. In a career that spanned five decades, Caldwell published forty novels, many of which were New York Times bestsellers. Her best-known works include the historical sagas The Sound of Thunder (1957), Testimony of Two Men (1968), Captains and the Kings (1972), and Ceremony of the Innocent (1976), and the spiritually themed novels The Listener (1960) and No One Hears But Him (1966). Dear and Glorious Physician (1958), a portrayal of the life of St. Luke, and Great Lion of God (1970), about the life of St. Paul, are among the bestselling religious novels of all time. Caldwell’s last novel, Answer as a Man (1981), hit the New York Times bestseller list before its official publication date. She died at her home in Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1985.

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obsidiana_tornasolhas quoted2 years ago
Events do no fall upon men; men create them through their governments and their politicians. Terror does not descend upon them from the skies, out of a nothingness. They plot it, themselves. Are not wars always conspired in secret and loosed upon the people with noble slogans, so that they will agree to fight, and die, and not complain? What nation can ever justly claim that it fought a holy war or a war of liberation? History refutes such fantasies. Wars are inevitably fought out of self-imposed fear, hatred, greed for riches, conquest, man-made exultation, or madness. Yet, there has never been a nation on Terra which did not shout that its cause was glorious and just, and that it actually fought for peace and not for war, for liberty and not for slavery. They have cried this through the ages, and they cry it still, and there lies the seed of their universal death. It is you who give them the heroic words that lead to destruction; it is you who arm them. But they deny your existence which, as you have once said, was your greatest triumph among men. Ah, destroyer of men, will they never recognize you for what you are?
obsidiana_tornasolhas quoted2 years ago
Fallen men love thrones. It is their ecstasy. Pomp and circumstance are their ultimate desires. Power is their dream
obsidiana_tornasolhas quoted2 years ago
A little freedom is a dangerous thing
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