Cory Taylor (1955 – 5 July 2016) was an Australian writer. Taylor was born in

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, Queensland and lived in Fiji and Kenya as a child. She studied history at the

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, and then worked as a freelance film and television writer, with her work including the 1988 two-part television film '' Alterations'' for the ABC. Her first books were the ''Rat Tales'' and ''Bandaged Bear'' series of children's books. Diagnosed with melanoma in 2005, Taylor turned to writing fiction and her 2011 début novel, ''Me and Mr Booker'', won the

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for the Pacific Region in 2012. Her next book, ''My Beautiful Enemy'' (2013), was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. As 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. It was shortlisted for the 2017 Stella Prize and included in

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's list of best books in 2017.

Bibliography

* ''Rat Tales'', illustrated by Stephen Michael King, Scholastic Australia, Sydney, 1999, Vol. 1, ''Rat's Lucky Day'' and ''Rat Goes Fishing'', ; Vol. 2, ''Rat and the Rude Cap'' and ''Rat and the Big Stink'' * ''Bandaged Bear and the Broken Bones'', co-authored with Peter Townsend, Scholastic Australia, Sydney, 2001, * ''Bandaged Bear Saves His Breath'', co-authored with Peter Townsend, Scholastic Australia, Sydney, 2001, * ''Bandaged Bear and the Birthday Party'', co-authored with Peter Townsend, Scholastic Australia, Sydney, 2002, * ''Me and Mr Booker'', Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2010, ** German: ''Mr. Booker und ich'', List/Ullstein Verlag, Berlin, 2019, * * ''My Beautiful Enemy'', Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2013, * ''Dying: A Memoir'', Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2016,

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Cory 1955 births 2016 deaths 20th-century Australian women writers 20th-century Australian writers 21st-century Australian novelists 21st-century Australian women writers Australian children's writers Australian National University alumni Australian television writers Australian women children's writers Australian women novelists Australian women screenwriters Deaths from brain tumor Deaths from cancer in Queensland Deaths from melanoma Griffith Review people Australian women television writers Writers from Queensland