wrote the book The Second Wave: British Drama of the Sixties, a sequel to Anger and After, and several television plays, including a version of Dracula with Denholm Elliott in the title role, which was praised by Kingsley Amis as the best version ever. In 1972, he moved to California, to teach film at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, serving as a Professor of Cinema from 1972 to 1978, while continuing to contribute to the London Times, as its American Cultural Correspondent, Sight and Sound, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. During this period, he wrote Directors and Directions: Cinema for the Seventies (1975). Having developed a friendship with Alfred Hitchcock during the 1970s, he became Hitchcock's authorised biographer. In 1978, after publishing Hitch, Taylor returned to the UK, becoming the art critic for The Times, a post that he held until 2005. His other books since 1978 include Strangers in Paradise: The Hollywood Emigres 1933–1950 (1983), and bio-critical studies of Ingrid Bergman (1983), Alec Guinness (1984), Vivien Leigh (1984), Orson Welles (1986), Elizabeth Taylor (1991), film historian John Kobal (2008) and the artists Edward Wolfe (1986), Peter Samuelson (1987), Robin Tanner (1989), Bernard Meninsky (1990), John Copley (1990), Muriel Pemberton (1993), Ricardo Cinalli (1993), Claude Monet (1995), Bill Jacklin (1997), Cyril Mann (1997), Peter Coker (2002), Zsuzsi Roboz (2005), Peter Prendergast (2006), Panayiotis Kalorkoti (2007), Carl Laubin (2007), Philip Sutton (2008), Kurt Jackson (2010), Philip Hicks (2013) and Paul Day (2016). More general books on art include Impressionist Dreams (1990) and Exactitude: Hyperrealist Art Today (2009). Since 2005, he has contributed frequently to The Times on art and film subjects and to Apollo on art, and reviewed drama regularly for Plays International. He was also editor of the magazine Films and Filming from 1983 until its closure in 1990. In 2013, an e-book edition of Hitch with a long introductory chapter giving the history of his relationship with Hitchcock was published, and five of his early books, Anger and After, The Rise and Fall of the Well-Made Play, The Second Wave, Cinema Eye, Cinema Ear and Directors and Directions, were reprinted as part of the Routledge classic critical text series. References (Revised and expanded edition of Anger and After: A Guide to the New British Drama.) External links . Retrieved 7 May 2008. ("Filmography".) "John Russell Taylor Biography (1935– )" at filmreference.com. Retrieved