Ann Saville, founder of Taylor Books , Charleston's well-known downtown bookstore, died just shy of her 91st birthday, which would have been Sunday.

Her death was confirmed by her son John Saville on Monday morning. John Saville said his mother died just after midnight Monday after an extended illness. Kanawha Valley

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Born Ann Taylor in 1934 in southeast London, England, she grew up with four brothers. During World War II, like more than a million other British children, she was twice evacuated to the countrysid

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