Allan Taylor, journalist and author, was born in Fayetteville, Tennessee, in 1898. He attended Staunton Military Academy, Staunton, Virginia, and graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1921. During the 1920's and 1930's, he worked for The Atlanta Constitution, The Atlanta Journal, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and the National Real Estate Journal. Taylor joined The New York Times in 1942, specializing in the Russian war front for the Sunday weekly news summary. Remaining with the Times until 1967, he later worked on the rewrite staff of the Sunday Magazine and wrote many book reviews and special articles.
Taylor was the author of two books for an adult audience: What Everybody Wants to Know About Wine (1934) and What Eisenhower Thinks (1952). His others were works of historical fiction for boys: Morgan's Long Rifles (1965) and, in collaboration with his wife, Lois Cole Taylor (under the pen name “Allan Dwight”), Drums in the Forest (1936), To the Walls of Cartegena (1967), and several others. Taylor died on June 18, 1968, in a Boston hospital.
