Taylor Hagood on Clubhouse

Bio

Writer, Speaker, Performer, Educator based in West Palm Beach

📖 Writer (7 books written/edited)

Author of forthcoming biography/true crime, NO SMOKE FROM THE CHIMNEY: THE MUSICAL LIFE AND MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF STRINGBEAN, on the life and murder of country music star, David “Stringbean” Akeman

Internationally known expert on William Faulkner. Author of award-winning book of literary criticism: FAULKNER, WRITER OF DISABILITY (C. Hugh Holman Award for Best Book in Southern Literary Studies)


🎤 Speaker (literature, art, travel, music, magic, history)

Venues include The Society of the Four Arts (Palm Beach, FL), Flint Institute of Arts (Flint, MI), Lakeside Chautauqua (Lakeside, OH), Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, CT and FL), Methvin Lecture, University of Georgia (Athens, GA), Venice International University (Venice, Italy), BAAS (Nottingham, UK), Amerikahaus (Munich, Germany)


🎭 Performer

Magician at Madhrikan’s Theater of Magic

🎹🪕🎸 Blues, country, rockabilly


👨‍🎓 Educator (higher education)

Former Fulbright Professor, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universatet, Munich, Germany

Professor, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton


INTERESTS

🤺🏇 Classical fencing (Martinez Academy), horseback riding

👨‍🎨 Oil, acrylic, watercolor, egg tempera painting; sculpture: represented by Profile Art Gallery (Jupiter, FL)