# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/taylor-branch
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:04:25.031Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/taylor-branch"
name: "Taylor Branch"
slug: "taylor-branch"
description: "Taylor Branch 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."
tagline: "American historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Taylor_branch_2009.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947-01-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           7.235028
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/taylorbranch"
    handle:    "taylorbranch"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.taylorbranch.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Taylor Branch"
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    title: "تايلور برانش"
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    title: "Taylor Branch"
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    title: "Taylor Branch"
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    title: "Taylor Branch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Taylor Branch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Taylor Branch"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump