Jay Taylor

Jay Taylor (December 4, 1931 – March 3, 2022) was a former U.S. foreign service officer, academic, documentarian, and writer. He was best known for writing The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China, a biography of Chiang Kai-Shek which won the Lionel Gelber Prize for the best English non-fiction book on Foreign Policy in 2010.