Assistant director (uncredited) to some films by Andy Warhol.
Had an older brother, Hudson.
He was inspired to hitchhike across the United States by Jack Kerouac's book, On the Road and Allen Ginsberg's poem, Howl.
Playwright and screen-writer.
Quit his job as a broker at Merrill Lynch in Detroit when he was 22. According to Andy Warhol in Popism, his father Harry Mead was the "political boss of Michigan... one of Roosevelt's favorites, and his official title was Wayne County Democratic Chairman, but he was also head of the Liquor Control Commission and the WPA in the Detroit area. He'd made the resident partner of Merrill Lynch in Detroit the state treasurer, and so the treasurer felt obligated to give his son a job. When Taylor left his stockbroker job in Detroit, he had just fifty dollars in his pocket."