Friday July 25, 2008
Biography 
Kate Taylor is a columnist and feature writer in the Globe’s Review section, writing on cultural affairs.
Born in France and raised in Ottawa, Taylor studied history and art history at the University of Toronto before completing a Masters in Journalism at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ont.
She joined The Globe and Mail’s copy desk in 1989 before moving into the arts section as a reporter in 1991. In 1995, she was appointed theatre critic, a job she held for eight years, winning two Nathan Cohen Awards and a National Newspaper Award nomination for her reviews.
She is also a prize-winning novelist. Her critically acclaimed 2003 novel Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen won the City of Toronto Book Award and was a regional winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, taking the award for best first novel in Canada and the Caribbean.
