![]() ![]() 1, Rat's Lucky Day and Rat Goes Fishing, ISBN 1863887393 Vol. Rat Tales, illustrated by Stephen Michael King, Scholastic Australia, Sydney, 1999, Vol.With her illness no longer treatable, she began at the start of 2016 to write. This list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items. At the age of sixty, Cory Taylor was dying of melanoma-related brain cancer. It was shortlisted for the 2017 Stella Prize and included in Barack Obama's list of best books in 2017. Īs her health worsened, Taylor wrote her last book Dying: A Memoir, which was published just before her death from melanoma-related brain cancer on 5 July 2016. Her next book, My Beautiful Enemy (2013), was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. ![]() ![]() Her first books were the Rat Tales and Bandaged Bear series of children's books.ĭiagnosed with melanoma in 2005, Taylor turned to writing fiction and her 2011 début novel, Me and Mr Booker, won the Commonwealth Book Prize for the Pacific Region in 2012. She studied history at the Australian National University, and then worked as a freelance film and television writer, with her work including the 1988 two-part television film Alterations for the ABC. You leave me suffering til I cant feel a thing. But God only knows what Ive been through. Taylor was born in Southport, Queensland and lived in Fiji and Kenya as a child. What are we really doing here I dont wanna live without you. ![]() Cory Taylor (1955 – 5 July 2016) was an Australian writer. ![]()
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