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August 30, 1985. Greenwich, Connecticut. Taylor Caldwell, in full Janet Taylor Caldwell (born Sept. 7, 1900, Manchester, Eng.âdied Aug. 30, 1985, Greenwich, Conn., U.S.) highly popular American novelist, known for her family sagas and historical fiction. Caldwell moved to the United States with her family in 1907 and settled in Buffalo, New York.
Her private life was no less contentious. Taylor Caldwell was a lifelong and self-acknowledged hypochondriac; her first and third marriages ended in divorce; her works were ignored and unpublished until she was 38 and the wealth generated by her success finally led to a bitter legal battle with her elder child.