Barbara Brown Taylor Biography

Barbara Brown Taylor is a New York Times best-selling author teacher and Episcopal priest. Her first memoir Leaving Church (2006) won an Author of the Year award from the Georgia Writers Association. Her last book Learning to Walk in the Dark (2014) was featured on the cover of TIME magazine.
She has served on the faculties of Piedmont College Columbia Theological Seminary Candler School of Theology at Emory University McAfee School of Theology at Mercer University and the Certificate in Theological Studies program at Arrendale State Prison for Women in Alto Georgia.
In 2014 TIME included her on its annual list of Most Influential People; in 2015 she was named Georgia Woman of the Year; in 2016 she received The President’s Medal at the Chautauqua Institution in New York. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees for Mercer University and is working on her fourteenth book Holy Envy coming from HarperOne in April 2019. Her work has been translated into five languages.

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