S.E. Taylor was born and raised in Texas, but has subsequently lived in Arizona, Illinois, and California. He’s been an antiques dealer for many years which is reflected in his love of not only antiques, but also history -- especially Hollywood history and stories about the movies from the Golden Age. He admits that he’s an overly-enthusiastic collector with far too many movies in his library, and he freely confesses that he couldn’t possibly live long enough to watch them all! He lives happily (sometimes) with his six cats, who allow him to oversee their care.

LAVENDER BOYS is not really his first novel. While in graduate school, he convinced one of his professors to let his literature class write a novel together, each student contributing chapters to the book instead of doing a research paper. As a result, Taylor got the formidable task of taking everyone’s chapters and rewriting them to make the book seem like it was written by one author. The professor’s plan was to submit the book for publication, but, sadly, that didn’t happen, and the book remains a nostalgic memory for the class members. Taylor laughingly says that the project was a lot more work than a paper would have been.