Taylor Branch
Taylor Branch | |
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| Born | January 14, 1947 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 |
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.