TAYLOR BALDWIN KILAND is a writer and ghostwriter specializing in military non-fiction. She has written, co-authored, ghostwritten, or edited eighteen books, including four about our nation’s Vietnam POWs. A former naval officer—the third generation in her family to serve in the Navy, Taylor was raised in Coronado, California, and Alexandria, Virginia. She spent twenty years in the private sector as a marketing communications professional before starting her writing career. She holds a master’s degree in marketing communications from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Southern California. She now lives in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband and their daughter.
HOMEPORT: Washington, DC and San Diego, California
AREAS OF EXPERTISE: Vietnam prisoners-of-war, Vietnam War
NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS:
Unwavering: The Wives Who Fought to Ensure No Man is Left Behind (Knox Press, 2023)
Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton: Six Characteristics of High-Performance Teams (Naval Institute Press, 2013)
Open Doors: Vietnam POWs Thirty Years Later (Potomac Books, 2005)
Dying is Easy: Living is The Difficult Thing (forthcoming memoir about Dr. Hal Kushner, University Press of Kentucky, 2027)
From the Sea to the C-Suite: Lessons Learned from the Bridge to the Corner Office (memoir of Vice Adm. Cutler Dawson, Naval Institute Press, 2019)
Numerous articles on military history: taylorkiland.com