Ken Taylor (writer)

Ken Taylor (writer)

Kenneth Heywood (Ken) Taylor, FRSA (2008), was born in Bolton, Greater Manchester, UK on 10 November 1922. As Ken Taylor he has written the scripts of up to one hundred hours of television drama in a career spanning more than four decades. In 1964 "The Devil and John Brown" received the award as Best Original Teleplay from the Writers' Guild of Great Britain and in the same year Ken Taylor was acclaimed Writer of the Year by the Guild of Television Producers and Directors for his trilogy of plays "The Seekers".

Adapted from Paul Scott's "Raj Quartet" novels as a fifteen-hour television mini-seies "The Jewel in the Crown" earned Ken Taylor an Emmy nomination, along with the award as Writer of the Year from the Royal Television Society, while his adaptation of Mary Wesley's "The Camomile Lawn" (1992) received a BAFTA nomination. His adaptation credits also include Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park", "The Melancholy Hussar" by Thomas Hardy, "The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd" by D. H. Lawrence, "The Birds Fall Down" by Rebecca West and "The Girls of Slender Means" by Muriel Spark.

A selection of Ken Taylor's television, film and stage credits can be viewed on his official website:http://www.kentaylor-scriptwriter.info.


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