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Arthur Russell Taylor

1862–1918

Best remembered today for the story collection Mr. Squem and Some Male Triangles, he was an early-20th-century writer whose work also appeared in Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories. The surviving record is slim, which gives his fiction a slightly hidden, rediscovered feel.

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Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories

Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories

by Elizabeth Ashe, Katharine Butler, Henry Seidel Canby, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie) Doty, H. G. (Harrison Griswold) Dwight, John Galsworthy, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Zephine Humphrey, Mary Lerner, F. J. Louriet, E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas, Margaret Lynn, C. A. Mercer, Margaret Prescott Montague, E. (Edith) Nesbit, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Dallas Lore Sharp, Margaret Pollock Sherwood, Ernest Starr, Amy Wentworth Stone, Arthur Russell Taylor

Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories

Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories

by Elizabeth Ashe, Henry Seidel Canby, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie) Doty, H. G. (Harrison Griswold) Dwight, John Galsworthy, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Katharine Butler Hathaway, Zephine Humphrey, Mary Lerner, F. J. Louriet, E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas, Margaret Lynn, C. A. Mercer, Margaret Prescott Montague, E. (Edith) Nesbit, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Dallas Lore Sharp, Margaret Pollock Sherwood, Ernest Starr, Amy Wentworth Stone, Arthur Russell Taylor

About the author

Arthur Russell Taylor (1862–1918) was an American author active in the early 1900s. His best-documented book is Mr. Squem and Some Male Triangles, published in 1918, and his story "Mr. Squem" was also included that same year in Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories.

Some genealogical and library records describe him as Rev. Arthur Russell Taylor and connect him with church work in Pennsylvania, but the published biographical trail is limited. Because so little has been firmly preserved online, he comes across as one of those writers known more through a surviving book title and a handful of catalog records than through a full public literary profile.

That scarcity is part of his interest now. Readers who encounter Taylor today are usually finding a nearly forgotten voice from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, preserved through digitized anthologies, library catalogs, and reprints rather than through a large modern reputation.