Taylor Branch
American historian · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1947 · age 79
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 AwardsAward1999National Humanities MedalAwardThe Hillman Prize for Book JournalismAward1991MacArthur Fellows ProgramAward1989Pulitzer Prize for HistoryAward1988National Book Critics Circle Award in NonfictionAward1947Born14 January 1947
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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
