Brandon Taylor (writer)

Taylor was born on June 1, 1989, in Prattville, Alabama,{{cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/people/brandon-taylor-campus-racism-inspired-booker-shortlisted-real-life|title=Brandon Taylor: campus racism inspired Booker-shortlisted 'Real Life'|first=Matthew|last=Reisz|website=THE|date=September 15, 2020|access-date=July 9, 2021|archive-date=July 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709210750/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/people/brandon-taylor-campus-racism-inspired-booker-shortlisted-real-life|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://delistraty.com/2021/02/14/author-brandon-taylor-on-his-next-books-and-first-film-adaptation/|title=Author Brandon Taylor on His Next Books and First Film Adaptation|first=Cody|last=Delistraty|website=Cody Delistraty|date=February 14, 2021|access-date=July 9, 2021|archive-date=July 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709210751/https://delistraty.com/2021/02/14/author-brandon-taylor-on-his-next-books-and-first-film-adaptation/|url-status=live}} and grew up in a small community outside Montgomery.{{Cite web|title=Brandon Taylor On His New Story Collection, 'Filthy Animals'|url=https://www.npr.org/2021/06/19/1008304486/brandon-taylor-on-his-new-story-collection-filthy-animals|first=Scott|last=Simon|date=June 19, 2021|access-date=June 24, 2021|website=NPR.org|language=en|archive-date=June 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210623164810/https://www.npr.org/2021/06/19/1008304486/brandon-taylor-on-his-new-story-collection-filthy-animals|url-status=live}} Part of Taylor's upbringing was spent in a very religious, conservative Baptist setting.{{Cite web|title=Brandon Taylor On His New Novel, Fashion's Role in His Fiction, and Working with Kid Cudi|url=https://www.gq.com/story/brandon-taylor-filthy-animals-interview|first=Mitchell|last=Kuga|date=June 23, 2021|access-date=June 24, 2021|website=GQ|language=en-US|archive-date=June 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210623201911/https://www.gq.com/story/brandon-taylor-filthy-animals-interview|url-status=live}} Taylor's family is mostly illiterate, and he was often made to read his parents' medical bills and government forms. He taught himself how to read using his brother's textbooks, and grew up reading a combination of romance novels, his aunt's nursing-home manuals, and the Bible.{{Cite web |last=Sisley |first=Dominique |date=2021-07-09 |title=Brandon Taylor Doesn't Want to Write About Race and Trauma Anymore |url=https://www.anothermag.com/design-living/13435/brandon-taylor-author-interview-filthy-animals-book-review-2021 |access-date=2023-10-19 |website=AnOther Magazine |language=en |archive-date=January 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240109143711/https://www.anothermag.com/design-living/13435/brandon-taylor-author-interview-filthy-animals-book-review-2021 |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |last=Cummins |first=Anthony |date=2021-06-12 |title=Brandon Taylor: 'I grew up reading my aunt's nursing-home manuals and bodice-rippers' |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jun/12/brandon-taylor-i-grew-up-reading-my-aunts-nursing-home-manuals-and-bodice-rippers |access-date=2023-10-19 |issn=0261-3077 |archive-date=August 25, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230825100006/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jun/12/brandon-taylor-i-grew-up-reading-my-aunts-nursing-home-manuals-and-bodice-rippers |url-status=live }}

Taylor attended Auburn University at Montgomery for his undergraduate studies,{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/books/brandon-taylor-real-life.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=June 30, 2020 |date=February 10, 2020 |first=MJ |last=Franklin |title=For a Scientist Turned Novelist, An Experiment Pays Off |archive-date=July 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725070631/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/books/brandon-taylor-real-life.html |url-status=live }} and then joined a graduate biochemistry program, and after leaving in 2016 began a career in creative writing.{{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/2020/04/01/825409532/science-is-for-everyone-until-its-not |title=Science Is For Everyone. Until It's Not |date=April 9, 2020 |publisher=NPR |first=Maddie |last=Sofia |access-date=July 14, 2020 |archive-date=July 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200714100712/https://www.npr.org/2020/04/01/825409532/science-is-for-everyone-until-its-not |url-status=live }} He earned graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Iowa, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.{{Cite web|title=Brandon Taylor {{!}} The Booker Prizes|url=https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/authors/brandon-taylor|access-date=July 29, 2022|website=thebookerprizes.com|archive-date=July 29, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220729065904/https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/authors/brandon-taylor|url-status=live}}

Taylor's short stories and essays have appeared in Granta, Guernica, American Short Fiction, Gulf Coast, Buzzfeed Reader, O: The Oprah Magazine, Gay, The New Yorker, The Literary Review, and elsewhere.{{cite web|url=https://lithub.com/brandon-taylor-reluctant-novelist/|title=Brandon Taylor, Reluctant Novelist: When a Short Story Writer Goes Long|website=LitHub|first=Brandon|last=Taylor|date=February 18, 2020|access-date=July 19, 2020|archive-date=June 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200601234552/https://lithub.com/brandon-taylor-reluctant-novelist/|url-status=live}} He is the senior editor of Electric Literature{{'}}s "Recommended Reading" and is a staff writer at Literary Hub.{{Cite web |last=Knutson |first=Käri |date=November 19, 2020 |title=UW alumnus Brandon Taylor one of six finalists for prestigious Booker Prize |url=https://news.wisc.edu/uw-alumnus-brandon-taylor-one-of-six-finalists-for-prestigious-booker-prize/ |access-date=June 24, 2021 |website=news.wisc.edu |language=en-US |archive-date=June 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624212253/https://news.wisc.edu/uw-alumnus-brandon-taylor-one-of-six-finalists-for-prestigious-booker-prize/ |url-status=live }} He has also contributed book reviews to The New York Times and 4Columns,{{Cite web |last=Taylor |first=Brandon |title=The Unfolding |url=http://4columns.org/taylor-brandon/the-unfolding |date=September 9, 2022 |access-date=2023-10-19 |website=4columns.org |archive-date=March 9, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230309203841/https://4columns.org/taylor-brandon/the-unfolding |url-status=live }} having reviewed works by authors such as Sally Rooney, Emma Cline, and Banana Yoshimoto.{{Cite news |last=Taylor |first=Brandon |date=2021-09-07 |title=Sally Rooney's Novel of Letters Puts a Fresh Spin on Familiar Questions |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/books/review/beautiful-world-where-are-you-sally-rooney.html |access-date=2023-10-19 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=September 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210908193836/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/books/review/beautiful-world-where-are-you-sally-rooney.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |last=Taylor |first=Brandon |date=2020-09-01 |title=Emma Cline Knows First World Problems |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/books/review/emma-cline-daddy.html |access-date=2023-10-19 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240123110323/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/books/review/emma-cline-daddy.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |last=Taylor |first=Brandon |date=2022-07-30 |title=Banana Yoshimoto Wants You to Feel Again |language=en-US |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/30/books/review/banana-yoshimoto-dead-end-memories.html |access-date=2023-10-19 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=August 15, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230815170521/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/30/books/review/banana-yoshimoto-dead-end-memories.html |url-status=live }} He also wrote the introduction for "Wading in Waist-High Water", a commentary book about the lyrics of Fleet Foxes.{{Cite book |last=Pecknold |first=Robin |title=Wading in Waist-High Water |date=25 May 2022 |publisher=Tin House |isbn=978-1-953534-44-6 |pages=ix-xiv |language=English}}

In an interview for the Booker Prizes, Taylor said his influences were Mavis Gallant, André Aciman, Jane Austen, Alice Munro, Louise Glück, Elizabeth Bishop, Hilton Als, Pat Conroy and Ann Petry.{{Cite web|title=Brandon Taylor Q&A: Real Life author Brandon Taylor talks about his Booker Prize longlist nomination {{!}} The Booker Prizes|url=https://thebookerprizes.com/booker-prize/news/interview-longlisted-author-brandon-taylor|date=May 1, 2022|access-date=June 24, 2021|website=thebookerprizes.com|archive-date=June 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624210157/https://thebookerprizes.com/booker-prize/news/interview-longlisted-author-brandon-taylor|url-status=live}}

He received a fellowship from the Lambda Literary Foundation in 2017.{{Cite web|title=Brandon Taylor|url=https://www.lambdaliterary.org/faculty_and_fellows/brandon-taylor-2/|access-date=June 24, 2021|website=Lambda Literary|language=en|archive-date=June 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624205908/https://www.lambdaliterary.org/faculty_and_fellows/brandon-taylor-2/|url-status=live}} He has also received fellowships for his writing from Kimbilio Fiction and the Tin House Summer Writer's Workshop.{{cite web|last=Nebbe|first=Charity|author-link=Charity Nebbe|date=March 4, 2020|title=Brandon Taylor's Debut Novel 'Real Life'|url=https://www.iowapublicradio.org/show/talk-of-iowa/2020-03-04/brandon-taylors-debut-novel-real-life|access-date=July 19, 2020|work=Talk of Iowa|publisher=Iowa Public Radio|archive-date=July 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200719223806/https://www.iowapublicradio.org/show/talk-of-iowa/2020-03-04/brandon-taylors-debut-novel-real-life|url-status=live}}

His debut novel, Real Life, was published in 2020 with Riverhead Books. In 2021, a collection of his stories, Filthy Animals, was also published by Riverhead.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/21/books/review/brandon-taylor-filthy-animals.html |title=Brandon Taylor's Filthy Animals Is a Study in Rogue Appetites |first=John Paul |last=Brammar |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=August 31, 2021 |date=June 21, 2021 |archive-date=August 31, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831223535/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/21/books/review/brandon-taylor-filthy-animals.html |url-status=live }}

{{Main|Real Life (novel)}}

Taylor wrote his debut novel, Real Life, in less than five weeks, and he later explained his approach: "I was like, I'm going to sit down and knock this out so I can get on with my life.... Writing a novel ruins your life in really specific ways. Because you have to live inside of it. It's just this sustained exercise in being miserable."{{cite interview | first =Brandon | last =Taylor | interviewer =André Wheeler | url =https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/05/brandon-taylor-author-real-life-interview | title ='I didn't write this book for the white gaze': black queer author Brandon Taylor on his debut novel | newspaper =The Guardian | date =March 5, 2020 | access-date =December 19, 2020 | archive-date =June 30, 2020 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20200630162538/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/05/brandon-taylor-author-real-life-interview | url-status =live }} It is "a campus novel imagined from the vantage of a character who is usually shunted to the sidelines ... a gay black student from a small town in Alabama".

Published in 2020 by Riverhead Books, Real Life received critical acclaim.{{cite news |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/real-life-is-a-new-kind-of-campus-novel |magazine=The New Yorker |access-date=June 29, 2020 |first=Eren |last=Orbey |date=February 19, 2020 |title=Page Turner: Real Life Is a New Kind of Campus Novel |archive-date=July 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200703035311/https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/real-life-is-a-new-kind-of-campus-novel |url-status=live }} Describing Taylor's work in the Los Angeles Times, Bethanne Patrick wrote: "His voice might best be described as a controlled roar of rage and pain, its energy held together by the careful thinking of a mind accustomed to good behavior."{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-03-11/brandon-taylor-real-life-review|title=Review: Waiting for wounds to heal and 'Real Life' to begin – Brandon Taylor's debut novel echoes James Baldwin|first=Bethanne|last=Patrick|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=March 3, 2020|access-date=July 19, 2020|archive-date=June 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604052948/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-03-11/brandon-taylor-real-life-review|url-status=live}} According to the review of Real Life by Jeremy O. Harris in The New York Times, "It is a curious novel to describe, for much of the plot involves excavating the profound from the mundane. As in the modernist novels of Woolf and Tolstoy cited in passing throughout, the true action of Taylor's novel exists beneath the surface, buried in subterranean spaces."{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/books/review/brandon-taylor-real-life.html|title=Brandon Taylor 'Subjugates Us With the Deft Hand of a Dom'|first=Jeremy O.|last=Harris|author-link=Jeremy O. Harris|newspaper=The New York Times|date=February 18, 2020|access-date=July 19, 2020|archive-date=June 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200629012501/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/books/review/brandon-taylor-real-life.html|url-status=live}} Michael Arceneaux wrote in Time: "Taylor's book isn't about overcoming trauma or the perils of academia or even just the experience of inhabiting a black body in a white space, even as Real Life does cover these subjects. Taylor is also tackling loneliness, desire and — more than anything — finding purpose, meaning and happiness in one's own life... How fortunate we are for Real Life, another stunning contribution from a community long deserving of the chance to tell its stories." Taylor himself has said: "I hope that it's a novel that challenges people to think about the ways that we fit together in our relationships with one another. I hope it makes people think really deeply about both the ways that they are harmed, and that they do harm to others."{{cite web|url=https://dailyiowan.com/2020/02/19/brandon-taylors-novel-real-life-debutes-at-prairie-lights/|title=Brandon Taylor reads from novel Real Life at Prairie Lights|first=Megan|last=Conroy|work=The Daily Iowan|date=February 19, 2020|access-date=July 19, 2020|archive-date=July 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200719142145/https://dailyiowan.com/2020/02/19/brandon-taylors-novel-real-life-debutes-at-prairie-lights/|url-status=live}}

Taylor's book tour to publicize his novel was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic and associated restrictions on travel and public gatherings.{{cite interview | interviewer = Michael Londres | url = https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/brandon-taylor-real-life | title = This was not the publication year Brandon Taylor expected | work = Interview | date = June 3, 2020 | access-date = December 19, 2020 | first = Brandon | last = Taylor | archive-date = December 2, 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201202163417/https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/brandon-taylor-real-life | url-status = live }} Real Life was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize.{{cite news |last=Flood |first=Alison |date=August 6, 2020 |title=Two friends, both up for the Booker prize: 'We are exploring what it means to feel alien' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/aug/06/two-friends-both-up-for-the-booker-prize-we-are-exploring-what-it-means-to-feel-alien |access-date=December 18, 2020 |newspaper=The Guardian |archive-date=January 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103035209/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/aug/06/two-friends-both-up-for-the-booker-prize-we-are-exploring-what-it-means-to-feel-alien |url-status=live }} The New York Times included the novel on its list of "100 Notable Books of 2020".{{cite news | work = The New York Times | access-date = December 19, 2020 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/books/notable-books.html | title = 100 Notable Books of 2020 | date = November 20, 2020 | archive-date = September 9, 2023 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230909163001/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/books/notable-books.html | url-status = live }}

In 2021, GQ reported that Real Life was being adapted into a movie featuring Kid Cudi.

Taylor's collection of short stories, Filthy Animals, was awarded The Story Prize in 2022.{{cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/89049-brandon-taylor-s-filthy-animals-wins-2022-story-prize.html|title=Brandon Taylor's 'Filthy Animals' Wins 2022 Story Prize|first=Sophia|last=Stewart|website=PW|date=April 13, 2022|access-date=September 20, 2022|archive-date=September 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920213828/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/89049-brandon-taylor-s-filthy-animals-wins-2022-story-prize.html|url-status=live}} In the Los Angeles Review of Books, Thomas Mar Wee wrote in praise of the book: "Neither cold nor detached, these stories are suffused with a warmth and humanity that recalled for me the uncanniness of Raymond Carver, the empathy of Alice Munro, and the meticulous irony of Chekhov."{{cite web|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/nuanced-portraits-on-brandon-taylors-filthy-animals/|title=Nuanced Portraits: On Brandon Taylor's 'Filthy Animals'|website=LA Review of Books|date=September 10, 2021|first=Thomas|last=Mar Wee|access-date=September 20, 2022|archive-date=September 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920213827/https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/nuanced-portraits-on-brandon-taylors-filthy-animals/|url-status=live}}

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Taylor's second novel, The Late Americans, was published in 2023. It follows a group of writers in Iowa City, where he lived while getting an MFA at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.{{cite web |last1=Levin |first1=Ann |title=Book Review: Brandon Taylor is back with a new campus novel, 'The Late Americans' |url=https://apnews.com/article/late-americans-brandon-taylor-book-review-51c7771d8413117b3e7e27cfca05e16f |website=AP News |date=May 22, 2023 |access-date=May 26, 2023 |archive-date=May 26, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230526181526/https://apnews.com/article/late-americans-brandon-taylor-book-review-51c7771d8413117b3e7e27cfca05e16f |url-status=live }} While critical responses to the novel were mostly positive, the reception was more mixed compared to his two previous works.{{Cite web |title=All Book Marks reviews for The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor |url=https://bookmarks.reviews/bookmark-all/ |access-date=2023-10-19 |website=Book Marks |language=en-US |archive-date=May 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230502143005/https://bookmarks.reviews/bookmark-all/ |url-status=live }}

A June 2023 article published in The Guardian reported that Taylor was working on novels entitled Group Show and Other Years, as well as a Southern Gothic project called Kinfolks. He stated in the article that he had found the process of writing Kinfolks particularly daunting, as it represented his first fictional foray into the rural environments of his youth.{{Cite news |last=Needham |first=Alex |last2= |date=2023-06-03 |title=Brandon Taylor: 'Writing is the most fun I'm capable of having' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/03/brandon-taylor-writing-is-the-most-fun-im-capable-of-having |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231020003904/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/03/brandon-taylor-writing-is-the-most-fun-im-capable-of-having |archive-date=October 20, 2023 |access-date=2023-10-20 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}

On July 10, 2024, Publishers Weekly reported that Taylor is slated to publish two non-fiction books through Graywolf Press: one, a collection of literary criticism, due in fall 2026; the other, a book on the craft of writing, due in fall 2027.{{Cite web |last=Maher |first=John |date=July 10, 2024 |title=Graywolf Acquires Two Nonfiction Books by Brandon Taylor |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/book-deals/article/95467-graywolf-acquires-two-nonfiction-books-by-brandon-taylor.html |access-date=2024-07-10 |website=Publishers Weekly |language=en |issn=0000-0019}} On the same day, Publishers Weekly also reported that Unnamed Press, an independent publisher for which Taylor serves as an acquiring editor, had formed the imprint Smith & Taylor Classics, which will be dedicated to publishing lesser-known works by acclaimed authors. Taylor and fellow Unnamed Press editor Allison Miriam Woodnutt (née Smith) are the imprint's namesakes.{{Cite web |last=Beeck |first=Nathalie op de |date=July 10, 2024 |title=Unnamed Press Inaugurates Smith & Taylor Classics Imprint |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/95469-unnamed-press-inaugurates-smith-taylor-classics-imprint.html |access-date=2024-07-10 |website=Publishers Weekly |language=en |issn=0000-0019}}

In March 2025, Taylor announced the upcoming release of his third novel, Minor Black Figures, on his Substack newsletter Sweater Weather.{{Cite web |last=Taylor |first=Brandon |date=2025-03-14 |title=minor black figures |url=https://blgtylr.substack.com/p/minor-black-figures |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=sweater weather |publisher=Substack}} The novel revolves around a gay Black painter as he navigates his artistic ambitions in New York City and becomes involved with a former Jesuit priest. Minor Black Figures is scheduled to be released on October 7, 2025, again from Riverhead Books. In the same announcement, Taylor mentioned that he had abandoned the novel Group Show, after having struggled to finish it since 2018.

{{as of|2022}}, Taylor lives in New York City.{{cite web |last1=Moody |first1=Chris |date=July 7, 2022 |title=Brandon Taylor on His Southern Roots and the Joys of Analog |url=https://www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture/books/brandon-taylor-on-his-southern-roots-and-the-joys-of-analog/article_f0293d30-fc74-11ec-8bc8-372575d9f93c.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920173847/https://www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture/books/brandon-taylor-on-his-southern-roots-and-the-joys-of-analog/article_f0293d30-fc74-11ec-8bc8-372575d9f93c.html |archive-date=September 20, 2022 |access-date=September 20, 2022 |website=nashvillescene.com |publisher=The Nashville Scene}} He is queer.

From 2021 to 2023, Taylor read all 20 novels in Émile Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart cycle after being commissioned to write a piece on the series for the London Review of Books. In the ensuing article, Taylor acknowledged how he deeply identified with the depiction of alcohol dependence portrayed in the novel L'Assommoir, likening it to the behavior he observed in his parents as a child. In the piece, he wrote:

{{Blockquote|text=The Assommoir is the most accurate, brutal depiction of the reality of alcoholism I have ever read, capturing too the strange, evil joviality that warps all the relationships in such a household. I found the book eerie and painful, and I wept at the end when Gervaise started to show physical symptoms similar to those I saw in my mother and father: the clumsiness, the persistent lack of memory, the tremors at all hours of the day.{{Cite magazine |last=Taylor |first=Brandon |date=2024-04-04 |title=Is it even good? |url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n07/brandon-taylor/is-it-even-good |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=London Review of Books |volume=46 |issue=7 |archive-date=March 27, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240327230430/https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n07/brandon-taylor/is-it-even-good |url-status=live }}

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• {{cite book|first=Brandon|last=Taylor|author-mask=2|title = Real Life|publisher = Riverhead Books|year = 2020|isbn = 9780525538882}}
• {{cite book |first=Brandon |last=Taylor |author-mask=2 |title=Filthy Animals |publisher=Riverhead Books |year=2021 |isbn=9780525538929}}
• {{cite book|first=Brandon|last=Taylor|author-mask=2|title=The Late Americans|publisher=Riverhead Books|year=2023|isbn=9780593332337}}
• {{cite book|first=Brandon|last=Taylor|author-mask=2|title=Minor Black Figures|publisher=Riverhead Books|year=2025|isbn=9780593332368}}

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• [http://brandonlgtaylor.com/ Official website]
• Audie Cornish, [https://www.npr.org/2020/02/17/806729417/author-brandon-taylor-on-his-coming-of-age-novel-real-life?t=1595159860726 "Author Brandon Taylor On His Coming-Of-Age Novel 'Real Life'"], All Things Considered, NPR, February 17, 2020.

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Category:1989 births

Category:21st-century African-American writers

Category:21st-century American LGBTQ people

Category:21st-century American novelists

Category:21st-century American short story writers

Category:African-American LGBTQ people

Category:African-American novelists

Category:American queer writers

Category:Auburn University at Montgomery alumni

Category:Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni

Category:LGBTQ people from Alabama

Category:Living people

Category:Novelists from Alabama

Category:Queer novelists

Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni

Category:Writers from Montgomery, Alabama