![]() ![]() Taylor attended the University of Toledo where she majored in English and minored in history. She has used some of those stories in her novels. Some of the stories he had actually lived himself. In my early years, the trip was a marvelous adventure, a twenty-hour picnic that took us into another time and another world.” Her father told her many stories that he had been told when he was a boy. ![]() Mildred Taylor was quoted in Something About the Author, as saying, “As a small child, I loved the South. Over the years she came to know the South through the yearly trips her family took to Mississippi and through the stories told whenever the family gathered. Her father decided to leave the South in the mid-1940’s because he did not want his children to live their lives as he had lived his, in a segregated, racist society that allowed little or no opportunity to blacks. When she went to school, she was the only black child in her class. They moved to a newly-integrated Ohio town called Toledo. When she was only three months old, her parents moved her and her sister to live in the North. Taylor, the South still holds pleasant memories as the home of her family. Even though she was born in the South, she did not grow up there. She is the daughter of Wilbert Lee and Deletha Marie (Davis) Taylor. Taylor was born in Jackson, Mississippi, on September 13, 1943. ![]() ![]() Mildred Taylor hugs her daughter Portia on Miildred Taylor Day in Mississippi, 2004. ![]()
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