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In his earlier career Robert Taylor was a hospital administrator and international consultant. He was an advisor to the World Bank, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Asian Development Bank, the World Health Organization, and the International Finance Corporation–and worked in over thirty developing countries. He and his wife, Susan Taylor, designed and led management training programs in Indonesia, North Africa, and other international locales including Russia and the newly independent states after the breakup of the Soviet Union. They co-edited The AUPHA Manual of Health Services Management for the Association of University Programs in Health Administration, a 1994 Aspen Publication.

In 2013, Robert published his first memoir, Hardship Post, the account of his years in Pakistan working for the Aga Khan. Before publication, the manuscript won first place for memoir in the 2012 Royal Palm Literary Awards Competition sponsored by the Florida Writers Association. In 2011 he won the Barbara Robinette Moss Scholarship at the Taos Summer Writers Conference for his essay on the creative process. His second memoir, Memories Lost and Found, a search for family heritage, was published in June, 2019. The Laws of Small Projects, a series of essays which set out immutable laws about small projects that fill the gap in human understanding left by the sages Parkinson, Peter and Murphy, was published in May, 2021. Molly and the Spatterdasher, his first novel, inspired by family lore, was published in 2023. His most recent book, What’s the Meaning of Life, And Other Easily Answered Questions, published in 2025, offers his thoughts on life’s big mysteries.

All his books are available on Amazon.

A native of Minneapolis, he and his wife have spent years being pathologically unsettled. They currently live in Colorado.