Taylor Branch

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Taylor Branch
Born	(1947-01-14) January 14, 1947 (age 78) Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Education	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (BA) Princeton University (MPA)
Genre	Nonfiction
Notable works	America in the King Years
Notable awards	MacArthur Fellowship National Humanities Medal Pulitzer Prize for History
Spouse	Christina Macy
Children	2

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.