Taylor, Samuel W. 1907-1997

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Name (Latin)
Taylor, Samuel W. 1907-1997
Other forms of name
Taylor, Samuel Woolley, 1907-
Date of birth
1907-02-05
Date of death
1997-09-26
Occupation
Authors
Editors
Journalists
Soldiers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Fuller form of name
Samuel Woolley
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 95331542
Wikidata: Q3471259
Library of congress: n 79112369
OCoLC: oca00344191
Sources of Information
  • Utah historical quarterly, summer 1999:page 265 (Samuel W. Taylor; Utah-born author, writer and soldier; home was in Redwood City, California in October, 1943, but he ws at Camp Shanks, New York with his ordnance company waiting to be shipped ot to the European theater of WWII) page 266 (stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington in September, 1943; began writing while a student at Brigham Young University with short stories and later expanding to novels, non-fiction books, three-act plays, and screenplays and made his career soley as a writer) page 267 (died from congestive heart failure September 26, 1997 at his home in Redwood City, California; born February 5, 1907)
  • Wikipedia, website viewed July 31, 2014(Samuel W. Taylor; Samuel Woolley Taylor; American novelist, scriptwriter and historian; born in Provo, Utah February 5, 1907; studied journalism at Brigham Young University in the late 1920s and edited and wrote a column for the student newspaper, Y News; In World War II served as an officer in the Army Air Force in public relations in Europe)
  • His Heaven knows why, 1948.
  • The absent-minded professor, 1961:credits (based on story by Samuel W. Taylor)
  • IMDB, Apr. 25, 2003(d. 26 September 1997)