Samuel Woolley Taylor (February 5, 1907 – September 26, 1997) was an American novelist, scriptwriter, and historian.
[1] He became editor of the student newspaper Y News, in which he also wrote a weekly column called "Taylored Topics."
After covering a story about rum-running on campus, Taylor was questioned by school administration to divulge his sources, but he refused.
[2] He decided to "escape" Utah and followed Gay Dimick, a fellow BYU student, back to her native California.
He is sometimes incorrectly credited as the writer of Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film Vertigo, though that screenplay was actually written by Samuel A.
Taylor continued to publish criticism related to Mormon culture in Dialogue as well as Sunstone magazine.