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Cory Taylor

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Cory Taylor (1955 – 5 July 2016) was an Australian writer. Taylor was born in Southport, Queensland, and lived in Fiji and Kenya as a child. She studied history at the Australian National University. Then she worked as a freelance film and television writer, with her work including the 1988 two-part television film Alterations for ABC. Her first books were the Rat Tales and Bandaged Bear series of children's books.

Diagnosed with melanoma in 2005, Taylor turned to write fiction, and her 2011 début novel, Me and Mr. Booker won the Commonwealth Book Prize 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 Barack Obama's list of best books in 2017.

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