In it, readers follow Wallace, a young, black, queer man from the South trying to find his place as a graduate student in a mostly white Midwest college town that is the Madison of Taylor’s own experiences.
And it is that period of his life that he draws on heavily for his debut novel, “Real Life.” Before becoming the writer and editor that he is today, Brandon Taylor was a doctoral student and biomedical researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
