Haunted Roanoke (Haunted America) (VA)
L.B. Taylor Jr. is a native Virginian. He was born in Lynchburg and has a BS degree in journalism from Florida State University. He wrote about America's space programs for sixteen years for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and aerospace contractors before moving to Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1974 to be public affairs director for the BASF Corporation. He retired in 1993. Taylor is the author of more than three hundred national magazine articles and fifty nonfiction books. His first book,Pieces of Eight: Recovering the Riches of a Lost Spanish Treasure Fleet, published in 1966, is still in print. Taylor's research for the bookHaunted Houses(published by Simon & Schuster in 1983) stimulated his interest in area psychic phenomena and led to the publication of twenty-five books on Virginia ghosts. In 2007, he was presented the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Virginia Writers' Club.