Taylor, Sydney, 1904-1978

Sydney Brenner Taylor was probably born in 1904 in New York City. She worked as an actress and as a dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company. She wrote numerous children's books, at first just for her daughter, that were based on her childhood growing up in a Jewish family with four sisters and a brother on New York's lower East Side. Her books describe the joys and sorrows of the lives of first-generation Americans. Taylor died in 1978. Biographical source: Something About the Author, volumes 26 and 28.

From the description of Sydney Taylor Papers 1951-1980. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 432980569

Sydney Brenner Taylor was probably born in 1904 in New York City. She worked as an actress and as a dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company. She wrote numerous children's books, at first just for her daughter, that were based on her childhood growing up in a Jewish family with four sisters and a brother on New York's lower East Side. Her books describe the joys and sorrows of the lives of first-generation Americans. Taylor died in 1978.

Biographical source: Something About the Author, volumes 26 and 28.

From the guide to the Sydney Taylor Papers, 1951-1980, (University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collections [clrc])