Goldie Taylor
| Goldie Taylor | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 18, 1968 University City, Missouri |
| Education | Emory University (BA) |
| Occupation | Journalist, author, television personality |
| Website | goldietaylor |
Goldie Taylor (born July 18, 1968) is an American author and opinion writer based in Atlanta, Georgia. She is an editor-at-large of The Daily Beast.
Taylor was born in University City, Missouri and raised in East St. Louis, Illinois. Her father was murdered on November 5, 1973 when she was 5, leaving her mother Mary to raise her and her siblings alone. She attended public schools in the metro St. Louis area before moving to Atlanta and graduating from Cross Keys High School in 1986. Taylor was an active duty US Marine trained in Public Affairs Broadcasting at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. She received an honorable discharge on medical grounds. Taylor then gained admission to Emory University in Atlanta where she studied Political Science and International Affairs.
Taylor worked on a number of political campaigns in the 1990s including the unsuccessful 1996 campaign by Guy Millner who ran as a Republican for post of United States Senator.
In later years, Taylor joined Kasim Reed for mayor—where she served as Communications Director. In the intervening years, she has worked for candidates on both sides of the aisle—including fundraising for President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign. Her first campaign was Lomax for Mayor in 1993, where she worked as Deputy Press Secretary for Fulton County Commission Chair Michael Lomax.
Taylor spent four years as a political contributor to MSNBC and wrote for MSNBC.com, where she focused on social justice issues. In late September 2014, it was announced that MSNBC had not renewed her contract. She did not announce her next move at that time. She is producing her first feature-length documentary, "The Other Side of Grace," which charts the rise and decline of her hometown—East St. Louis, IL.
While a student at Emory University, Taylor began writing for the Emory Wheel as well as for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as a part-time staff writer. She self-published her first novel, In My Father's House, with WheatMark Press in 2005. Her second novel, The January Girl, was first published by Madison Park Press in 2007 and later re-released by Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette.
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