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William Robin Taylor ONZM, 1938 – 15The Blue Lawn is arguably, William Taylor’s finest writing in a notable career as an author for young people. His fiction was published worldwide to significant acclaim.‘William Taylor’s stories exhibit his sympathetic understanding, his compassion, his warm-heartedness and his joy in their exhilaration and faith in life.’ –Tom Fitzgibbon, Beneath Southern Skies.Taylor has written novels for adults but now regards these as his ‘apprenticeship’ for his successful fiction for children and teenage readers. Born in Lower Hutt, he worked in banking before beginning his teaching career, which included a year in London, and culminating in becoming principal of Ohakune Primary School, 1979-86, a time when he was also a solo parent, part-owner of a restaurant and mayor of Ohakune (1981-88).His early ‘apprentice’ novels show the hallmarks of his children's fiction: contemporary realism in rural and smalltown settings; concern for justice .....