Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Kenneth Heywood Taylor FRSA was an Award-winning English screenwriter, credited as Ken Taylor. The son of a Lancashire cotton mill owner in Bolton, Greater Manchester, Taylor was educated at Gresham's School, Holt. Under the name Ken Taylor, he wrote scripts for television drama in a career spanning more than four decades. In 1964 The Devil and John Brown received the Best Original Teleplay Award of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. In the same year, Taylor was named Writer of the Year by the Guild of Television Writers and Directors for his trilogy of television plays The Seekers. The Jewel in the Crown, adapted from Paul Scott's Raj Quartet novels as a fifteen-hour mini-series, earned Ken Taylor an Emmy nomination in 1984 along with the award as Writer of the Year from the Royal Television Society, while his adaptation of Mary Wesley's The Camomile Lawn received a BAFTA nomination