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John Tayman is the author of the nonfiction bestseller The Colony, which was a No. 1 BookSense Pick, and an Editor’s Pick by The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, Publishers Weekly, and NPR.

In 2011, Tayman founded the award-winning digital publishing company Byliner, which published thirty-two bestsellers by authors such as Jon Krakauer, Amy Tan, Margaret Atwood, and Nick Hornby. Byliner was acquired in 2016 by Macmillan publishers.

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	The Colony: The Harrowing True Story Of The Exiles Of Molokai 3.81 avg rating — 2,308 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“None of this might ultimately have mattered”
― John Tayman, The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai

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