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Peter Taylor, the Forgotten Short Story Master of Memphis

MASTERFUL

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author may have been an upper-class, Southern white male but he had a genius for insight into the human heart and he poured it into his peerless stories.

Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson
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Robert Wilson

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