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Cory Taylor

Novelist and screenwriter

Australia · 1955–2016

Australian novelist and screenwriter, whose Me and Mr Booker won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Pacific region and whose My Beautiful Enemy was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin. Diagnosed with melanoma in 2005 and told in 2015 that it was no longer treatable, she wrote Dying: A Memoir in a few weeks at the start of 2016. It was published in May; she died in palliative care in Brisbane on 5 July 2016.

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Question If you could edit your past, what would you change? Failure & regret read 45 other answers →

So many times I’ve wondered what might have happened to me if I had lost my legs, or even just my right one, where my first melanoma appeared two or three years later. If I’d just been a second slower stepping away from the car, I might not be dying now. I’d be legless, of course, but still in good health. Of these fateful forks in the road are our lives made up. We are all just a millimetre away from death, all of the time, if only we knew it.

Recorded Edited extract from Dying: A Memoir, Text Publishing, The Guardian, 17 May 2016 source ↗

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