captains and the kings by taylor caldwell

In 1934, she began to work on the novel Dynasty of Death, which she and Reback completed in collaboration. They were married for 40 years, until his death in 1971. She had a second child with Reback, a daughter Judith, in 1932. In 1931 she graduated from SUNY Buffalo, and also was divorced from William Combs.Ĭaldwell then married her second husband, Marcus Reback, a fellow Justice employee. In 1924, she went to work for the United States Department of Justice, as a member of the Board of Special Inquiry (an immigration tribunal) in Buffalo. From 1923 to 1924 she was a court reporter in New York State Department of Labor in Buffalo, New York.

In 1920, they had a daughter, Mary (known as 'Peggy'). In 1918-1919, she served in the United States Navy Reserve. (In 1947, according to TIME magazine, she discarded and burned the manuscripts of 140 unpublished novels.) She continued to write prolifically, however, despite ill health. Her father did not approve such activity for women, and sent her to work in a bindery. At the age of eight she started to write stories, and in fact wrote her first novel, The Romance of Atlantis, at the age of twelve (although it remained unpublished until 1975). Her father died shortly after the move, and the family struggled. In 1907 she emigrated to the United States with her parents and younger brother.

Taylor Caldwell was born in Manchester, England. Once again, Taylor Caldwell has looked into America's roistering past as a setting for a drama of the consequences of savage ambition - and its meaning then and now.Īlso known by the pen names Marcus Holland and Max Reiner. CAPTAINS AND KINGS is the story of the price that was paid for it in the consuming, single-minded determination of a man clawing his way to the top in the bitter-sweet bliss of the love of a beautiful woman in the almost too-late enjoyment of extraordinary children and in the curse which used the hand of fate to strike in the very face of success itself.

A multi-millionaire, one of the most powerful and feared men, Joseph Armagh had indeed found a home. Some seventy years later, from his deathbed, Joseph Armagh last glimpsed his adopted land from the gleaming windows of a palatial estate. It was the early 1850's and he was a penniless immigrant, an orphan cast on a hostile shore to make a home for himself and his younger brother and infant sister. Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh was thirteen years old when he first saw America through a dirty porthole on the steerage deck of The Irish Queen. This is a great surging novel about the amassing of a colossal fortune, the political power that comes with it, and the operation of a curse laid on an Irish-American dynasty and the ruthless driving man who founded it.

Captains and the kings by taylor caldwell