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Taylor Branch

Author of Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–63

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Taylor Branch is the bestselling author of Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63; Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65; At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968; and The Clinton Tapes. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Humanities Medal, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's Life-time Achievement Award. He lives in Baltimore with his wife, Christy Macy. — biography from The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement… (more)
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1947-01-14
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USA
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Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Princeton University (MPA | 1970)
University of North Carolina (BA | 1968)
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The Washington Monthly
Harper's Magazine
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National Humanities Medal (1999)
MacArthur Fellowship (1991)
Dayton Literary Peace Prize's Lifetime Achievement Award (2008)
Morehead Scholarship
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