[2] After attending school in Norwich, he read modern history at St John's College, Oxford, and has received the 2003 Whitbread Biography Award for his biography of George Orwell.
[3] His novel Derby Day was longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize.
He has contributed to The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, New Statesman, The Spectator, Private Eye and Literary Review, among other publications.
"[5] Taylor, who was born in Norwich, lives there with his wife, the fiction writer Rachel Hore, and their three children.
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