![]() The letter that Sydney opened that day, addressed from Follett Publishers, informed her that she was the first-place winner in their Children’s Manuscript Competition. ![]() But after that day’s mail came, there was a significant change of status - the daughter of Eastern European Jewish immigrants had at once become a professional writer. Photo above right, Sydney Taylor (Sarah Brenner) in the 1920s, from the private collection of her daughter, Jo Taylor Marshall.įor New York City housewife Sydney Taylor, November 21, 1950, began as just another ordinary day. Though she wrote several other children’s novels, the five books in the All-of-a-Kind Family series proved to be her lasting legacy, earning a devoted audience for their warm and loving depiction of Jewish life in early twentieth-century America. This series of autobiographical children’s novels portrays the life of an Eastern European Jewish immigrant family in New York City in the early twentieth century. Sydney Taylor (born Sarah Brenner Octo– February 12, 1978) was an American author best known for All-of-a-Kind Family. ![]()
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