Phantom Father: A Daughter's Quest for Elegy - Hardcover

by Sharon Estill Taylor (Author)

This project is a labor of love manifested in a lifelong father-quest. It is, simply, something I had to do. As war babies whose fathers never came home to us, we received instead a yearning for something missing but ever-present. To that, I added a burning desire to know my father. This project is about honor and sacrifice, another way to be a daughter, and a tribute to the eternal spirit of father-love across time and reality.
--Sharon Estill Taylor, PhD

Author Biography

Sharon Estill Taylor, MSW, PhD, is an educator, speaker, former professor of psychology, social work, and women's studies, and author of two books. Dr. Taylor is a member of the National WWII Museum's Board of Trustees and a frequently invited presenter at conferences, where she speaks about issues of grief, loss, unimaginable wonder, and reinvention.

Her first book, a memoir, Phantom Son: A Mother's Story of Surrender, was published in 2015. A Spiegel TV documentary film, A Love in the Time of War: The Last Flight of Lt. Estill, chronicles the search for and recovery of her father's WWII crash site in Germany.

She lives in the civilized Sonoran Desert of Arizona near her four children, most of her 14 grandchildren, and in harmony with the belief that the heart expands. To learn more about Dr. Taylor, and her work, visit her website: myphantomfather.com