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Taylor Branch (born
January 14,
1947 in
Atlanta, Georgia) is an American author and
historian best known for his award-winning trilogy of books chronicling the life of
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the history of the American
civil rights movement. The third and final volume of the 2,912-page trilogy — collectively called
America in the King Years — was released in January 2006. Branch lives in
Baltimore, Maryland with his wife, Christina Macy, and their two children, Macy (b.
1980) and Franklin (b.
1983)
Early life and education
Branch graduated from
The Westminster Schools in
Atlanta in
1964. From there, he went to the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on a
Morehead Scholarship. He graduated in 1968 and went on to earn an
M.P.A. from the
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at
Princeton University in
1970.
He was a
lecturer in
politics and
history at
Goucher College from
1998 to
2000.
Career
Branch served as an assistant editor at
The Washington Monthly from
1970 to
1973; he was Washington editor of
Harper's from
1973 to
1976;
and he was Washington columnist for
Esquire Magazine from
1976 to
1977. He also has written for a wide variety of other publications, including
The New York Times Magazine,
Sport,
The New Republic, and
Texas Monthly.
In
1972, Branch helped run the
Texas campaign of Democratic presidential nominee
George McGovern. Branch's co-leaders in the effort were
Bill Clinton, later to be president of the United States, and Houston lawyer Julius Glickman.
He received a five-year
MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (also known as a "genius grant") in
1991 and the
National Humanities Medal in
1999.
Books
Second Wind (with Bill Russell) (Random House: 1979)
The Empire Blues (fiction) (Simon & Schuster: 1981
Labyrinth (with Eugene M. Propper): (Viking: 1982)
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 (Simon & Schuster: 1988) » Pulitzer Prize for History, 1988
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction, 1988 » English-Speaking Union Book Award, 1989
(Finalist): National Book Award, Non-Fiction, 1989
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65 (Simon & Schuster: 1998) » American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award, 1999)
Imus Book Award, 1999 » Sidney Hillman Book Award, 1999
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968 (Simon & Schuster: 2006)Further Information
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