Richard Taylor is a writer, so he has worked such diverse jobs as a potato peeler (Army), military intelligence analyst (Army), served two tours of duty in Vietnam, drove a truck, sold auto parts, bagged groceries, managed a pool hall, was a V.P. of a small Hollywood production company (he sold them a screenplay and they invited him to stay on), was a security guard, later a Chief of Security of an historic Hollywood studio, published and edited an in-house company magazine, and now writes novels. Just your ordinary American life, really.

Biography provided by the author, July 2007.