Taylor Branch
1947
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Princeton University, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, The Westminster Schools
award received: MacArthur Fellows Program, Pulitzer Prize for History, National Humanities Medal, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, Heartland Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship
official website: www.taylorbranch.com
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. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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