Richard Taylor

Richard Taylor: grew up amidst farms, woods, and water in rural New Hampshire. Following Dartmouth University and the Army, he was a member of the 1964 Olympic Nordic Ski Team. University of Kiel (Fulbright Fellowship) and Yale University lead to college teaching German language and literature. In 1987, at Gould Academy in Bethel, Maine, he established a year-round training program for high school age cross-country skiers and taught German, Latin, and world literature. His first book, The Absence of Strangers, was published by Goose River Press in 2017. Footfalls of the Unknown, also with Goose River Press was published this spring. He and his wife Sally live in Bethel, Maine.