Books by Alan Taylor

This book is an intimate, fond and funny memoir of one of the greatest novelists of the last century.

This study weaves tropes from New Rhetoric into Hollywood film practice from the 1920s to the present. Institutional narratives combine with a central focus on the careers of notable directors - Bogdanovich, Scorsese, Michael Cimino and Francis Ford Coppola.

How is American history written? Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alan Taylor answers this question in this collection of his essays from The New Republic, where he explores the writing of early American history.

A history of the Potteries

Describes the earliest years of human colonization of the American continent and environs with the Siberian migrations across the Bering Strait. This book conveys the story of competing interests - Spanish, French, English, Native, Russian - that over the centuries shaped both the continent and its 'suburbs' in the Caribbean and the Pacific.