Jeremy Taylor (writer)
{{Short description|Trinidad and Tobago writer, editor and publisher}}
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Jeremy Taylor is a writer, editor and publisher who was born in England and has lived and worked in Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean since 1971.[http://www.meppublishers.com/online/crb/past_issues/index.php?pid=3000&id=cb10-1-16 "In Brief: Review of Trinidad & Tobago: Photographs by Alex Smailes, with an introduction by Jeremy Taylor (Macmillan Caribbean], {{ISBN|1-4050-0749-4}}, 204 pp.)" in Caribbean Review of Books, No. 10, November 2006. In 1991, he co-founded the publishing company Media and Editorial Projects Limited (MEP).
Biography
Taylor has contributed the BBC and The Times (London), Radio Trinidad and Radio 95.1FM in Trinidad, the now defunct AVM Television,Trinidad & Tobago Television (TTT),[http://tttpioneers.org/archives/17 Remembering TTT: A Personal View] by Jai Parasram on TTT Pioneers, January 2005., the Trinidad and Tobago Express and Trinidad Guardian,Baksh, Vaneisa, [http://legacy.guardian.co.tt/archives/2008-12-13/Vaneisa_Baksh.html "Going to Ground Again"], Trinidad & Tobago Guardian, 13 December 2008.
Additionally, Taylor contributed to a number of international print and radio organisations, including The Observer (London), The Sunday Times, The New York Times,Shaftel, David, [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/books/review/Shaftel-t.html?_r=1 "Letter from Trinidad: an Island Scorned"], The New York Times, 18 May 2008. Encyclopædia Britannica,[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/605453/Trinidad-and-Tobago/54812/Additional-Reading Trinidad & Tobago: additional reading]. Encyclopædia Britannica online. World Book Encyclopaedia, the CBC (Toronto), National Public Radio (Washington), CANA (Caribbean News Agency), and The New Internationalist.{{cite web|first=Jeremy|last=Taylor|url=http://www.newint.org/features/1980/12/01/oil-money/ |title=Drowning in petrodollars|website=New Internationalist|date= December 1980}}
Taylor was the Founding Secretary of the Caribbean Publishers Network (CAPNET), from 2000 to 2002).[http://www.bellagiopublishingnetwork.com/newsletter29/taylor.htm "Reclaiming our own voices: The Caribbean Publishers Network stages the first international conference on Caribbean publishing"], BPN Newsletter (Bellagio Publishing Network), Issue No. 29, December 2001. He was among the founding members of the organising committee for the first Bocas LitFest, the Trinidad & Tobago literary festival, in April/May 2011.{{Cite web |url=http://www.bocaslitfest.com/about.html |title=About the Bocas LitFest |access-date=30 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110501234124/http://www.bocaslitfest.com/about.html |archive-date=1 May 2011 |url-status=dead }}
Bibliography
- Masquerade: A Visitor's Guide to Trinidad & Tobago (1986, Macmillan).[http://www.pancaribbean.com/banyan/archivedatabase.htm Programme 8, Gayelle TV Series One], 24 February 1987. Second edition: Trinidad and Tobago: An Introduction and Guide (1991, Macmillan, {{ISBN|978-0-333-55607-8}})[https://openlibrary.org/b/OL10550735M/Trinidad_and_Tobago_an_Introduction_and_Guide_%28Caribbean_Guides%29"Trinidad and Tobago an Introduction and Guide (Caribbean Guides)"], Open Library. Internet Archive.
- Trinidad and Tobago: A Souvenir in Pictures (1988, Macmillan)
- BWIA’s Caribbean: A Guide to 28 Caribbean Countries (1988, British West Indies Airways, {{ISBN|978-976-8033-04-8}})
- Above and Beyond: A History of BWIA 1940–1990 (1990, British West Indies Airways)
- The Point Lisas Story (1991, Media & Editorial Projects)Renwick, David, [http://www.trinidadexpress.com/business-magazine/The_hallmark_of_real__industrialisation-116283039.html "The Real Hallmark of Industrialisation"], Trinidad & Tobago Express Business Magazine, 15 February 2011.[http://www.plipdeco.com/main/uploads/files/ptlisasstory.pdf The Point Lisas Story], the Point Lisas Port Development Company
- Going to Ground: Journalism 1972–1992 (1994, Prospect Press, {{ISBN|976-8052-08-2}})Adam, Mary, [http://maryadamart.com/folio/Going_To_Ground.html "Review: Going to Ground by Jeremy Taylor"], Folio Books, 4 March 1997.
- A Black & White Book (2003, Prospect Press)
- Introduction, Trinidad & Tobago: Carnival Land Water People by Alex Smailes (2006, Macmillan, {{ISBN|978-1-4050-0749-8}})
- Introduction, In the Public Eye by Joanne Kilgour Dowdy (2009, Commess University Press, {{ISBN|978-0-615-27720-2}})Iverson, Susan, [https://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1098&context=jiws "Book Review| In the Public Eye"], Journal of International Women's Studies, Vol. 12, issue 1, January/February 2011.
References
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External links
- [http://www.meppublishers.com Media & Editorial Projects Ltd (MEP)]
- [http://jeremy-taylor.blogspot.com/ Jeremy Taylor: Notes from Port of Spain]
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Category:20th-century Trinidad and Tobago male writers
Category:Immigrants to Trinidad and Tobago
Category:People educated at King's Ely