Who is taylor caldwell

Caldwell, 84, died Friday of pulmonary failure caused by advanced lung cancer. She had been almost deaf since and had suffered two strokes that deprived her of the ability to speak. It was an ending entirely in character for a woman whose life had been a constant, and largely successful, battle against the odds. Taylor Caldwell was a lifelong and self-acknowledged hypochondriac; her first and third marriages ended in divorce; her works were ignored and unpublished until she was 38 and the wealth generated by her success finally led to a bitter legal battle with her elder child.

Nobody ever gave me anything. Nobody ever left me anything. Yet there was a certain pride in her recounting of that era--and an admission that this learning, far from being a burden, became her prime absorption in the years that followed. When she was 6 her father, a commercial artist, moved the family from England to Buffalo, N. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Taylor Caldwell ,.

Jess Stearn. Series by Taylor Caldwell. Quotes by Taylor Caldwell. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.

She was so prolific a writer that she published 40 novels between and Reading through the pages of her collection of memoirs, the reader begins to understand how her quite unusual upbringing produced a woman of such extraordinary convictions. I was lucky to get eight hours of sleep. But the Liberal will not, if he can help it, let you live in peace, or, coming down to the matter, let you live at all. In the essay, she lamented:. The middle class, the hardworking, the self-reliant, slowly smothered from despair.

Who cared? The mob had a full belly today and government promised to fill it again tomorrow. Caldwell's heroes are self-made men of pronounced ethic background, such as the German immigrants in The Strong City and The Balance Wheel Her stories dealt with ethnic, religious and personal intolerance The Wide House , , the failure of parental discipline Let Love Come Last , In her later works Caldwell explored the American Dream and wrote stories "from rag to riches" course of life, among them Answer as a Man However, the economic success of American capitalism seemed to her a Pyrrhic victory: "The whole country," Caldwell complained to a friend, "has become soft, whiney, whimpering, demanding, cowering, lip-licking, feeble — and stupid.

Rorabaugh, , p. Burt, p. Religious themes were prominent in several works. Answer as a Man begins with the clamour of the bells of a little church and end with renewed faith.

God is good. He moves mysteriously, as the priests say, but he has his ways, he has his ways! He is not the adversory of man. Man is, Jason thought. God is not to be understood by man.

He is just to be trusted. In the story Jason Garrity pins his hopes on the building of a luxury hotel, but Caldwell deals also with politics and history "Hell! What can I, as a single individual, do to prevent calamity? Taft is the safest man. He is not an imperialist, like Roosevelt. Nor a social fanatic like Wilson. I'll vote for Taft.