Taylor Branch

Taylor Branch (2009)

Taylor Branch (born January 14, 1947 in Atlanta , Georgia ) is an American author and historian.

Life

Taylor Branch is the son of Franklin T. and Jane Branch, b. Worthington. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , where he graduated in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts in history, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University . There he finished his studies in 1970 with a Master of Public Affairs.

From 1970 Branch worked as a journalist for The Washington Monthly , Harper’s and Esquire . He has also published non-fiction books on historical and political subjects. Since 1976 he has lived mainly from his work as an independent author. His best-known work is the America in the King Years trilogy , in which he describes the history of the American civil rights movement with a focus on Martin Luther King . It has won several awards, including the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for History for the first volume .

Branch taught history of the civil rights movement at Goucher College in Maryland (1998 to 2000) and lectured at other universities. He was also active as a consultant and speechwriter and worked for Bill Clinton from 1992 .

Branch is married to Christina Macy and has two children. He lives in Baltimore .

Publications (selection)

• Blowing the Whistle: Dissent in the Public Interest. (with Charles Peters ) Praeger, New York 1972.
• Second wind. (with Bill Russell ) Random House , New York 1979, ISBN 0-394-50385-6 .
• The Empire Blues. Simon & Schuster , New York 1981, ISBN 0-671-23096-4 .
• Labyrinth. (with Eugene M. Propper ) Viking New York 1982, ISBN 0-670-42492-7 . Penguin Books, New York 1983, ISBN 0-14-006683-7 .
• Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963. Simon & Schuster, New York 1988, ISBN 0-671-46097-8 .

Pulitzer Prize / History , 1989

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, 1963-1965. Simon & Schuster, New York 1998, ISBN 0-684-80819-6 .

American Bar Association , Silver Gavel Award, 1999

Imus Book Award , 1999

The Hillman Prize , 1998

• At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968. Simon & Schuster, New York 2006, ISBN 0-684-85712-X .
• The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President. Simon & Schuster, New York 2009, ISBN 978-1-4165-4333-6 .
• The Cartel: Inside the Rise and Imminent Fall of the NCAA. Byliner, San Francisco 2011, ISBN 978-1-61452-013-9 .
• The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement. Simon & Schuster, New York 2013, ISBN 978-1-4516-7897-0 .

Web links

Commons : Taylor Branch  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Homepage (English)
• Literature by and about Taylor Branch in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Inventory of the Taylor Branch Papers, 1865-2005 , at the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . (English)
• Booknotes interview with Branch on Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963–1965 , April 12, 1998. (English)
• In Depth interview with Branch, February 5, 2006 (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Taylor Branch In: Elizabeth A. Brennan, Elizabeth C. Clarage (Eds.): Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999, ISBN 1-5735-6111-8 , p. 319.
2. ↑ winners pulitzer.org. Retrieved August 31, 2013.
3. ^ The Hillman Prize Previous Honorees . 2009. Retrieved December 13, 2012.
4. ^ The Clinton Tapes, Wrestling History with the President . Retrieved December 14, 2012.