captains and the kings by taylor caldwell

Both miniseries told epic family stories of coming to America and the generational struggles that followed.

That one was called Captains and the Kings, a nine-hour series broadcast over eight days, which was adapted from Taylor Caldwell’s fiction for NBC and aired only four months prior to Haley’s more famous program. A new miniseries based on Alex Haley’s Roots would soon be broadcast, and you might tune in because the first miniseries you watched, a few months back, was so good. Because you loved those books, you were one of the millions enticed by that new programming phenomenon, the miniseries, which brought fiction bestsellers to life on network television. Chances are you subscribed to a book club as well as those magazines-some of which promoted Caldwell paperbacks. She died at her home in Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1985.If you were a middle-class White mom in 1976 with copies of lifestyle magazines piled in the corner of a green shag-carpeted room designed by a Dorothy Draper protégé, you probably also had a few thick Taylor Caldwell novels tucked in the bookshelf by the hi-fi stereo. Caldwell’s last novel, Answer as a Man (1981), hit the New York Times bestseller list before its official publication date. Paul, are among the bestselling religious novels of all time. Luke, and Great Lion of God (1970), about the life of St. Dear and Glorious Physician (1958), a portrayal of the life of St. Her best-known works include the historical sagas The Sound of Thunder (1957), Testimony of Two Men (1968), Captains and the Kings (1972), and Ceremony of the Innocent (1976), and the spiritually themed novels The Listener (1960) and No One Hears But Him (1966). In a career that spanned five decades, Caldwell published forty novels, many of which were New York Times bestsellers. She adopted the pen name Taylor Caldwell because legendary editor Maxwell Perkins thought her debut novel, Dynasty of Death (1938), would be better received if readers assumed it were written by a man. Married at age eighteen, Caldwell worked as a stenographer and court reporter to help support her family and took college courses at night, earning a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Buffalo in 1931.

She started writing stories when she was eight years old and completed her first novel when she was twelve.

Born Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell in Manchester, England, she moved with her family to Buffalo, New York, in 1907. Taylor Caldwell (1900–1985) was one of the most prolific and widely read authors of the twentieth century.

Captains and the kings by taylor caldwell