“Learning
should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is
an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.”
– Taylor Caldwell
Born in England this date in 1900, Caldwell emigrated
to the U.S. in 1907 and spent many of her formative years living in poverty
after her father died. It shaped her
values and she said she always wanted to have money and never again live in
fear of want.
A writer even before leaving England (where she
won a Charles Dickens Prize for young writers) she became a prolific author of
popular fiction, writing under her own name and the pen names Marcus Holland
and Max Reiner, and by her married name of J. Miriam Reback.
In her fiction, she often used real historical
events or persons combined with her own vivid imagination, writing bestsellers
like Dynasty of Death, Dear and Glorious Physician (about Saint
Luke), The Earth is the Lord's (about Genghis Khan), and Captains and
the Kings. Over her long lifetime
(she died at age 85), she had nearly 50 novels published and purportedly
discarded more than 150 more. To date,
her books have sold upward of 40 million copies worldwide.
“A born skeptic” she believed firmly
in education and hard work. “I wanted to
acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal to
make it.”
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