Author+Biography

Theodore Taylor was born in North Carolina and had lived all around the world but began writing at the young age of thirteen. At the age of seventeen he left home and went to Washington D.C. to be the copyboy for their Daily News and only made the poor wage of $11 a week with a cheap apartment that only cost a dollar a day. Two years later he was writing radio network sports for NBC in New York. The reason "The Cay" is based on World War 2 is because Theodore Taylor first served as a cadet in World War 2. Some other books that Theodore Taylor wrote our Timothy of the Cay, Ice Drift, The Bomb, Rogue Wave, and Billy the kid.