BETH TAYLOR

teacher, mother, author

    Raised in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Savery Taylor graduated from Smith College in 1975, and earned her PhD in American Literature from Brown University in 1989.  Beth then taught in Harvard’s Expository Writing Program before returning to Brown in 1994.  At Brown, she teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program in the Department of English.   Beth has been a feature writer and currently is a book reviewer for The Providence Journal.   Her publications include “Fighting Pacifism” in Friends Journal; “Quaker in Vietnam: Rick Thompson (1949-1973),” a Pendle Hill pamphlet; “Crossing the Line: Finding Butch,” in War, Literature and the Arts; “Lost to Vietnam,” in Friends and the Vietnam War, and on the web site “Writing Vietnam.”   Beth is married to William Taylor and has three sons: Peter, age 24; Sam, 22; and Max, 18.  The Taylors live in Providence.