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Timothy Taylor

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January 01, 1963 in Venezuela

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Timothy Taylor is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Born in Venezuela, he was raised in West Vancouver, British Columbia and Edmonton, Alberta. Taylor attended the University of Alberta and Queen's University, and lived for some years in Toronto, Ontario. In 1987 he returned to British Columbia. Taylor currently resides in Vancouver.

Taylor's short story "Doves of Townsend" won the Journey Prize in 2000. He had two other stories on the competition's final shortlist that year, and is to date the only writer ever to have three short stories compete for the prize in the same year. He subsequently served as a judge for the 2003 award.

His debut novel, Stanley Park, nominated for the Giller Prize and chosen to be the 2004 One Book, One V...more

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Average rating: 3.52 · 1,102 ratings · 175 reviews · 38 distinct works

	Stanley Park: A Novel 3.59 avg rating — 536 ratings — published 2001 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Blue Light Project 3.04 avg rating — 207 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death 3.98 avg rating — 57 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Prehistory of Sex: Four Million Years of Human Sexual Culture 3.78 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Story House 2.89 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Economics, 3rd Edition 4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Artificial Ape: How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution 3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Silent Cruise 3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Contemporary Economic Issues Part 1, 2, 3, and 4 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Economics 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“Natural for you, perfectly natural," the Professor whispered. "Natural to refuse the key that is given. To be blind in the darkness of knowing. To be filled with a dark light that we must shine on the people around us. A light that makes us weep and pull down our own houses.”
― Timothy Taylor, Stanley Park: A Novel

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