G.p. taylor biography

English writer

Graham Peter Taylor (born 1958 in Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire, England), pen-name G. P. Taylor, is the author of the best-selling^[1] novels Shadowmancer(which has been translated into 48 languages)^{[citation needed]}, Wormwood, and Tersias. Before taking up writing full-time, he was a police officer, motorcyclist and former rock band roadie turned Anglican vicar in the village of Cloughton, North Yorkshire. Taylor has three children and currently resides in Whitby, North Yorkshire.

Biography

Taylor grew up in Yorkshire, but moved to London in the 1970s where he worked in the music industry with such bands as The Stranglers, Sex Pistols, Elvis Costello, and Adam and the Ants. He became involved in the occult, and lived a life that was, in his own words "into all sorts of weird and wonderful things and wasn’t leading a godly life". He then turned to Christianity, and he later became a vicar with the Church o