He was an early supporter of Ralph Ellison who was under contract with Reynal, and moved to Random House along with Taylor to publish his novel Invisible Man.
Taylor also published James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain; Grace Metalious's Peyton Place; and Françoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse in paperback for Dell.
Mayer introduced Taylor to Henry Roth's 1934 book Call It Sleep and in 1964, Avon printed it for the first time in paperback.
Here he published such diverse and important books as the Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver's memoir Soul on Ice; Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media; Leo Rosten's The Joys of Yiddish; Desmond Morris' Naked Ape and Human Zoo; and Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch.
[21] In '67 Taylor visited Vladimir Nabokov in Montreux, Switzerland, and persuaded him to leave his current publisher, Putnam, for McGraw-Hill.
[28] At Praeger he continued to publish important works such as Howard A. Wilcox' Hothouse Earth, an early book about climate change, and Mark Vonnegut's The Eden Express, both in 1975.
[29][30] Frank Taylor retired in 1979 and spent his final years in Key West, Florida, in an openly gay relationship with the author Stephen Roos.
He reconnected with his old friend Ralph Ellison; [31] joined the board of the Key West Literary Seminar, [32] and was associate editor of the Solares Hill newspaper.