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Lawrence Taylor

1959– · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

4 works about Lawrence Taylor are indexed here, as is one work by Taylor.

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Works about or by Lawrence Taylor. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.

By Lawrence Taylor

LT : living on the edge

Taylor, Lawrence, 1959- · 1987 · Times Books

Lawrence Taylor's own account of his life in football, published by Times Books in New York in 1987 and reprinted from that edition. It concerns football players of North Carolina and of the United States. Taylor played college football at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which is where the Orange County connection lies. 225 pages with sixteen pages of plates.

About Lawrence Taylor

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Football Office records, 1934-2008.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Football Office · 1934

Records of the Football Office at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1934 to 2008, counted at 5,152 items, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40291. Coaches and players represented include Mack Brown, Bill Dooley, Dick Crum, Carl Torbush, John Bunting, Charlie Justice and Lawrence Taylor. The records also concern the university's baseball, basketball and tennis programs. Materials in English.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Taylor, Lawrence, 1959-.

UNC

Lawrence Taylor

Hirshberg, Dan · 1997

Dan Hirshberg's 1997 biography of Lawrence Taylor, published in Philadelphia. Topics include Taylor, football players and the football program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he played in college, which is the work's Orange County connection.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Taylor, Lawrence, 1959-.

UNC

The Lawrence Taylor story

Liss, Howard · 1987 · Enslow Publishers

Howard Liss wrote this short life of the football player Lawrence Taylor for young readers, published by Enslow Publishers in Hillside, New Jersey in 1987. Topics include Taylor, athletes, and football players of the United States, along with his college team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 64 pages with portraits, 23 cm.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Taylor, Lawrence, 1959-.

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