Patrick Taylor (author)
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Patrick Taylor is a retired medical researcher (professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia)and best-selling novelist.
Born in 1941 and brought up in Bangor, Northern Ireland, Taylor studied and practiced medicine in Belfast and rural Ulster before immigrating to Canada
in 1970 to work in the field of human infertility. From 1987-1989 he worked at the Bourn Hall Fertility Clinic in association with 2010 Nobel Laureate Sir Robert Edwards. Taylor has received three lifetime achievement awards including the Lifetime Award of Excellence in Reproductive Medicine of the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society http://www.patricktaylor.ca/ptaylor_bio.html.
He has written or contributed to 170 academic papers and six textbooks and also served as editor-in-chief of the Canadian Obstetrics and Gynaecology Journal, as well as writing several medical humour columns and serving as book reviewer for Stitches: The Journal of Medical Humour http://www.patricktaylor.ca/ptaylor_bio.html.
Taylor has published eight books of creative writing, all set in Northern Ireland: a short-story collection entitled Only Wounded: Ulster Stories, and three novels: Pray for Us Sinners and its sequel Now and in the Hour of Our Death, and The Apprenticeship of Doctor Laverty (short listed for the BC Book awards fiction prize 2005). In 2007 Tom Doherty and Associates NY., NY republished 'The Apprenticeship of Doctor Laverty'in hard back as 'An Irish Country Doctor'. It was 'Book of the Month Club's' Novel of the Month in March 2007. It went NY Times best seller, and repeated this, and achieved Canadian best seller status after trade paper release in 2008. It has currently been translated into thirteen other languages. Four sequels 'An Irish Country Village' March 2008, and 'An Irish Country Christmas' Oct 2008, 'An Irish Country Girl' Oct 2009, and An Irish Country Courtship Oct 2010 have appeared. All have achieved Canadian best-seller status. When 'An Irish Country Christmas; appeared in mass market paper in 2010 it reached No 17 on the New York Times and 86 on the USA Today's lists. 'A Dublin Student Doctor' will be published in Oct. 2011.
An earlier work, written with TF Baskett, titled The Complete Anthology of En Passant 1989-1999, is a collection of their shared humour columns.
Taylor now lives on Salt Spring Island BC, Canada where he is completing the seventh book in the series,'An Irish Country Wedding.'
Born in 1941 and brought up in Bangor, Northern Ireland, Taylor studied and practiced medicine in Belfast and rural Ulster before immigrating to Canada
Canada
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in 1970 to work in the field of human infertility. From 1987-1989 he worked at the Bourn Hall Fertility Clinic in association with 2010 Nobel Laureate Sir Robert Edwards. Taylor has received three lifetime achievement awards including the Lifetime Award of Excellence in Reproductive Medicine of the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society http://www.patricktaylor.ca/ptaylor_bio.html.
He has written or contributed to 170 academic papers and six textbooks and also served as editor-in-chief of the Canadian Obstetrics and Gynaecology Journal, as well as writing several medical humour columns and serving as book reviewer for Stitches: The Journal of Medical Humour http://www.patricktaylor.ca/ptaylor_bio.html.
Taylor has published eight books of creative writing, all set in Northern Ireland: a short-story collection entitled Only Wounded: Ulster Stories, and three novels: Pray for Us Sinners and its sequel Now and in the Hour of Our Death, and The Apprenticeship of Doctor Laverty (short listed for the BC Book awards fiction prize 2005). In 2007 Tom Doherty and Associates NY., NY republished 'The Apprenticeship of Doctor Laverty'in hard back as 'An Irish Country Doctor'. It was 'Book of the Month Club's' Novel of the Month in March 2007. It went NY Times best seller, and repeated this, and achieved Canadian best seller status after trade paper release in 2008. It has currently been translated into thirteen other languages. Four sequels 'An Irish Country Village' March 2008, and 'An Irish Country Christmas' Oct 2008, 'An Irish Country Girl' Oct 2009, and An Irish Country Courtship Oct 2010 have appeared. All have achieved Canadian best-seller status. When 'An Irish Country Christmas; appeared in mass market paper in 2010 it reached No 17 on the New York Times and 86 on the USA Today's lists. 'A Dublin Student Doctor' will be published in Oct. 2011.
An earlier work, written with TF Baskett, titled The Complete Anthology of En Passant 1989-1999, is a collection of their shared humour columns.
Taylor now lives on Salt Spring Island BC, Canada where he is completing the seventh book in the series,'An Irish Country Wedding.'
External links
- Official site
- About the Irish Country books series at Tor BooksTor BooksTor Books is one of two imprints of Tom Doherty Associates LLC, based in New York City. It is noted for its science fiction and fantasy titles. Tom Doherty Associates also publishes mainstream fiction, mystery, and occasional military history titles under its Forge imprint. The company was founded...