Kimball Taylor is the author of Return by Water: Surf Stories and Adventures, as well as, Drive Fast and Take Chances: Fair Warning from Surfers. He's a long-time contributor to Surfer Magazine. Taylor has co-authored history books on Pipeline and Jeffreys Bay. Taylor holds a BA in Journalism and a MFA in Creative Writing. He has taught writing courses at San Diego State University and is an alumnus of The Squaw Valley Community of Writers.
Just when you think you know every border story imaginable, Kimball
Taylor shows up with this book of madness. It's an audacious tale
told with great elan. I loved everything about this story--mostly
because it's true. Can one bicycle change the world? Maybe not, but
Kimball Taylor knows with love, no border is impermeable.-- "Luis
Alberto Urrea, author of THE DEVIL'S HIGHWAY: A True Story"
Kimball Taylor brings us along on a deeply researched and richly
detailed journey to our southern border, and in the process
enlightened me with every turn of the page. The Coyote's Bicycle is
not unlike a swift downhill mountain bike ride through no-man's
land.--Eric Blehm, New York Times Best Selling Author of Legend,
Fearless, and The Only Thing Worth Dying For
What an improbable, richly peopled saga! Kimball Taylor follows his
hunch so deep into the world of polleros and the borderlands where
they do their human smuggling that you'll forget you're reading
non-fiction. El Indio, his clients, the authorities, and the harsh
country they all do battle with--not to mention all the merry,
ubiquitous bicycles rolling through the story--this completely
original concoction reads like Latin American magical realism,
except it's reported-out and grounded in fact. Wonderful
stuff.--William Finnegan, author of Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
and Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country
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