Taylor Branch
American author and historian (born 1947) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the stream in Missouri, see Taylor Branch (Wolf Creek).
Taylor Branch (born January 14, 1947) is an American author and historian who wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning trilogy chronicling the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and much of the history of the American civil rights movement. The final volume of the 2,912-page trilogy, collectively called America in the King Years, was released in January 2006, and an abridgment, The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement, was published in 2013.
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Born | (1947-01-14) January 14, 1947 (age 77) Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
Education | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (BA) Princeton University (MPA) |
Genre | Nonfiction |
Notable works | America in the King Years |
Notable awards | MacArthur Fellowship National Humanities Medal Pulitzer Prize for History |
Spouse | Christina Macy |
Children | 2 |
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