Charles P. B. Taylor
| Charles P. B. Taylor | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1935 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | July 8, 1997 (aged 61–62) |
| Residence | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Alma mater | Queen's University |
| Occupation | Journalist, author, essayist, racehorse owner/breeder |
| Spouse(s) | Noreen |
| Children | Edward, Nadina |
| Parent(s) |
Edward Plunket Taylor Winnifred Thornton Duguid |
Charles Plunket Bourchier Taylor (1935 – July 8, 1997) was a Canadian journalist, author, essayist, and thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder.
While studying at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Taylor was part of the student broadcast team on CFRC, the campus radio station. He went on to work for Reuters news service in London, England from 1955 until 1962, when he joined the staff of The Globe and Mail newspaper in Toronto. His career in journalism saw him become the paper's bureau chief in British Hong Kong, Peking, China, and London, England. He reported from numerous countries around the world, providing coverage of major events including the Vietnam War, the Nigerian Civil War, and the Arab–Israeli conflict.
Taylor wrote Reporter in Red China (1966) and edited China Hands (1984), books based on experiences in the Far East. The author of four books and several plays, in later years he served as Chairman of the Writers' Union of Canada.
Following his death in 1997, his widow Noreen created the Charles Taylor Foundation, whose work includes the funding of the Charles Taylor Prize, a $25,000 literary prize awarded annually since 2000 to the best Canadian work of literary non-fiction.
The son of renowned horseman E. P. Taylor and brother to bookseller Judith Taylor Mappin, Charles Taylor took over the running of Windfields Farm in the early 1980s, following his father's incapacitation from a stroke. A major horse breeding and racing operation based in Oshawa, Ontario, Windfields Farm also ran a breeding farm in Chesapeake City, Maryland. The Canadian farm is the birthplace of racing great and champion sire Northern Dancer, called by the National Thoroughbred Racing Association as "one of the most influential sires in Thoroughbred history."
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