Taylor, Raymond W.

Samuel Woolley Taylor was born February 5, 1907 in Provo, Utah, the son of Janet "Nettie" Maria Woolley Taylor and John W. Taylor, then a member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and brother of Raymond Taylor. During the latter 1920s, Samuel enrolled in Brigham Young University in Provo to study journalism. During this time he wrote a weekly column in BYU's Y News entitled "Taylored Topics." In 1934 he married Gay Dimick, a fellow student writer he had met at BYU. They later settled in Redwood City, California and adopted one daughter named Sara. Samuel had a long and successful career as a freelance writer and wrote almost every type of genre including: detective stories, westerns, sports, adventures, humor, a play, and movie scripts. Samuel also wrote numerous articles and books on Mormonism.--c.f. Cracroft, Richard H., "Samuel Woolley Taylor: Maverick Mormon Historian," Mormon Mavericks, Edited by John Stillito and Susan Staker, Signature Books, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2002, pp 305-328.

From the description of Raymond and Samuel Taylor correspondence, 1966-1972. (Utah State University). WorldCat record id: 70805164

...