Michael Taylor
Agent: Donald Winchester
Michael is a historian, mostly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
His first book, The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery (2020), was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing.
His follow-up, Impossible Monsters: How the Discovery of Dinosaurs Changed the World (2024), was nominated for the Duff Cooper Prize.
His third book, Illuminati: The History of a Conspiracy Theory, will be published by Bodley Head (UK) and Norton/Liveright (US) in November 2026.
As an academic, he was Lecturer in Modern British History at Balliol College, Oxford; a visiting fellow at the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library; and a researcher for a political scientist based at Tel Aviv University.
He now works in tax disputes for PwC.
