WRITER

Taylor Caldwell

1900 - 1985

Taylor Caldwell

Janet Miriam Caldwell (September 7, 1900 – August 30, 1985) was a British-born American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction under the pen names Taylor Caldwell, Marcus Holland and Max Reiner. She was also known by a variation of her married name, J. Miriam Reback. In her fiction, she often used real historical events or persons. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Taylor Caldwell has received more than 349,223 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Taylor Caldwell is the 4,667th most popular writer (down from 3,897th in 2019), the 3,363rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,869th in 2019) and the 377th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

350k
Page Views (PV)
48.51
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
17
Languages Editions (L)
3.27
Effective Languages (L*)
2.62
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Great lion of God

Apostles, Bible, Christian saints

Based on the life of St Paul.

1970

The eagles gather

Fiction, French Americans, Fiction, general

1940

The strong city

Family, Fiction, Fiction in English

1942

Dear and glorious physician

Bible, Christian saints, Evangelists (Bible)

The world-famous novel about the triumphant story of St. Luke, man of science, and Gospel writer<P> Today St. Luke is known as the author of the third Gospel of the New Testament, but two thousand years ago he was Lucanus, a Greek, a man who loved, knew the emptiness of bereavement, and later traveled through the hills and wastes of Judea asking, "What manner of man was my Lord?" And it is of this Lucanus that Taylor Caldwell tells here in one of the most stirring stories ever lived or written.<P> Lucanus grew up in the household of his stepfather, the Roman govenor of Antioch. After studying medicine in Alexandria he became one of the greatest physicians of the ancient world and traveled far and wide through the Mediterranean region healing the sick. <P> As time went on he learned of the life and death of Christ and saw in Him the God he was seeking. To find out all he could about the life and teachings of Jesus, whom he never saw, Lucanus visited all the places where Jesus had been, questioning everyone--including His mother, Mary--who had known Him or heard Him preach. At last, when he had gathered all information possible, he wrote down what we now know as the Gospel according to St. Luke. <P> Taylor Caldwell has chosen the grand, the splendid means to tell of St. Luke. Her own travels through the Holy Land and years of meticulous research made Dear and Glorious Physician a fully developed portrait of a complex and brilliant man and a colorful re-creation of ancient Roman life as it contrasted in its decadence with the new world Christianity was bringing into being. Here is a story to warm, to inspire, to call forth renewal of faith and love lying deep in each reader's heart.

1959

Dynasty of death

Fiction in English

1938

The Turnbulls

Fiction in English, Children's fiction, Fiction, general

The story of John Turnbull and his wife Lillybelle Botts set to struggle from the hideous cycle of hatred and love. John is an 18-year-old Englishman who think of nothing but his love for his beautiful yet cruel cousin Eugenia McNeill. However, after an unforgivable mistake his father sent him to America with his wife Lillybelle. There John's pride, Lillybelle's passion and the rage to love mixed so it did not only destroy those they hate, but also those they love. With the help of Mr. Wilkins and Mrs. Beardsley the couple live a life of fortune and contentment until Eugenia and her husband Andrew Bollister came and ruined everything. Now John's hatred grew and gave him three daughters. The youngest (Adelaide) is the one who take his vengeance and hate not until Anthony, Andrew and Eugenia's son came and fall in love to Adelaide. Together, Adelaide and Anthony built a Romeo and Juliet love story that the tragedy is heart warming and tear jerking. And against John's and Andrew's will, they married. After the struggle and enduring Lillybelle's passion break through and made John realized how wrong he was and realized that he doesn't love Eugenia anymore and Lillybelle is the one he really love.

1943