Robert Lewis Taylor-Vintage Signed Photograph (Pulitzer Prize 1959)

  

2.75x5 B&W glossy vintage photograph signed "To Jim Wiggins with best regards Robert Lewis Taylor" in ballpoint ink. Stamped on the verso is May 5 1959. After college, he became a journalist and won awards for reporting.

In 1939, he became a writer for The New Yorker magazine, contributing biographical sketches. His work also appeared in The Saturday Evening Post and Reader's Digest. From 1942 to 1946, Taylor served in the United States Navy during World War II. During his service, he wrote numerous stories and Adrift in a Boneyard, an extended fiction about survivors of a disaster. In 1949, The Saturday Evening Post commissioned a series of biographical sketches of W. He published them together as W. Fields: His Follies and Fortunes. Taylor continued to write fiction and biographies, including one on Winston Churchill. A Journey to Matecumbe was adapted in 1976 as the Disney movie Treasure of Matecumbe. His novel Professor Fodorski served as the basis for the 1962 musical All American.

Jim Wiggins accumulated the most unique and valuable autograph collection over a period of 70-plus years. He obtained his collection either in person or by writing to persons of fame and notoriety. Comes with a full Letter of Authenticity from Todd Mueller Authentics.