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Taylor Branch

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American historian

United StatesWritersBorn 1947 · age 79
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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.

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2007Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
1999National Humanities Medal
1999The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism
1991MacArthur Fellows Program
1989Pulitzer Prize for History
1988National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction
Guggenheim Fellowship

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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.

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Born 1947 · age 79
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