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Taylor Brown

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Taylor Brown is the award-winning author of the novels Fallen Land (2016), The River of Kings (2017), Gods of Howl Mountain (2018), Pride of Eden (2020), Wingwalkers (2022), Rednecks (2024), and Wolvers (2026) as well as a short story collection, In the Season of Blood and Gold (2014). He is the recipient of the Southern Book Prize, the Montana Prize in Fiction, the Ron Rash Award for Fiction, the Audie Award in Fiction, the Weatherford Award in Fiction, and he was named Georgia Author of the Year for Literary Fiction. His work has also been a finalist for the John Steinbeck Award, Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize, Doris Betts Fiction Prize, the Writer’s Digest Writing Competition, and others. An Eagle Scout and avid motorcyclist, he has lived in ...more

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Taylor Brown Cynthia, believe it or not, that picture is from an actual tintype taken by my friend Harry Taylor, who uses an authentic 19th-century camera. It requ…moreCynthia, believe it or not, that picture is from an actual tintype taken by my friend Harry Taylor, who uses an authentic 19th-century camera. It requires a 12-second exposure and the shots are developed on small metal plates...it's quite an experience! Here's his website:

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Taylor Brown Hi Sharon, thank you for the kind words! The River of Kings is my second novel -- it came out in March 2017. It's set on the Altamaha River in Georgia…moreHi Sharon, thank you for the kind words! The River of Kings is my second novel -- it came out in March 2017. It's set on the Altamaha River in Georgia, very close to where I grew up. The Altamaha -- aka the "Amazon of the South" -- is the largest undammed river in the eastern United States. The Nature Conservancy has named it one of the 75 "Last Great Places" on Earth, and it even has its own sea monster ;)(less)
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Gods of Howl Mountain

3.88 avg rating — 3,085 ratings — published 2018 — 14 editions
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Rednecks

3.81 avg rating — 3,140 ratings — published 2024 — 7 editions
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Fallen Land

3.81 avg rating — 2,268 ratings — published 2016 — 8 editions
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The River of Kings

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Pride of Eden

3.89 avg rating — 567 ratings — published 2020 — 9 editions
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Wolvers

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In the Season of Blood and ...

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Rednecks

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“Violent, Tender, Thrilling” — WOLVERS in the NYT!

Awww-woooooo! That’s my barbaric yawp/howl for this New York Times review of Wolvers that turned up yesterday! This is the first-ever review of my work in the NYT (eighth book is the charm, I reckon!), but it’s a doozy.

“Violent, tender, and thrilling WOLVERS explores the battle between man, wolf, and nature… Brown’s descriptions of the pitiless, dangerous beauty of the natural world, and of man

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“It wasn’t dying that she feared, it was dying bad: leaving her grandboy alone in the world, unprotected, his wounds unhealed. Death, which walked ever through these mountains, knew she would not go down easy.”
Taylor Brown, Gods of Howl Mountain

“You like to think that people, in general, and I mean on the scale of generations, are learning from their mistakes, getting better. But with what all I seen, I don't know if I could believe that.”
Taylor Brown, Fallen Land

“Christ's father let him die on that cross. I understand why he done it. But Christ never had no granny like me.”
Taylor Brown, Gods of Howl Mountain

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“You like to think that people, in general, and I mean on the scale of generations, are learning from their mistakes, getting better. But with what all I seen, I don't know if I could believe that.”
Taylor Brown, Fallen Land

“You die down there, you better hope I live a real long time. Because that's all the goddamn peace you're gonna get.”
Taylor Brown, Fallen Land

“The difference between stupid and intelligent people – and this is true whether or not they are well-educated – is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. ”
Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

“Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds.”
Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

“Sometimes, when I'm falling asleep, I think of breaking the latches on every lion and tiger cage in the world. Those cats streaming like fire and lightning into the night. Maybe, if we were forced to feel like prey again, like animals, we'd have a little more respect for the rest of the creatures we share this rock with.”
Taylor Brown, Pride of Eden

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