Elisabeth Russell Taylor
Elisabeth Russell Taylor was an English writer of novels, short stories, nonfiction and children's books. Critics acclaimed her "brilliant, dark and unsettling" work, describing it as "mingling the elegant with the grotesque."
Personal life
She was born in London to parents Sidney Lewsen and Peggy Davidson. As a girl she studied at the Francis Holland School and the Garden School in West Wycombe.Her first marriage to Freddie Silberman, with whom she had her only child, Jonathan, was brief. Her second marriage to Russell Taylor began in 1957, and in 1962 she left him for artist Tom Fairs, whom she eventually married in 1987. She began to write during her second marriage.
She lived in Belsize Park.
Partial bibliography
Nonfiction:Wish You Were Here London Lifelines The Potted Garden Marcel Proust and His Contexts: A Critical Biography of English-Language Scholarship The Diabetic CookbookNovels:Swann Song Divide and Rule Tomorrow Pillion Riders I is Another Present Fears
Short story collections:Present Fears Will Dolores Come to Tea? Belated and Other Stories
Children's books:The Gifts of the Tarns Tales from Barleyhill The Loadstone
- ''Turkey in the Middle''