Taylor Branch

Biography

Taylor Branch is the Pulitzer-Prize winning author, best known for his series on Martin Luther King, Jr and the Civil Rights era including Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, (National Book Award) Pillars of Fire and At Canaan’s Edge. He has also received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the National Humanities Medal.

Most Known For

Bill Russell: Legend

as Self - Co-Author with Bill Russell, 'Second Wind'

Citizen King

as Self

4 Little Girls

as Self - Author

Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media

as Self

Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story

as Self

Freedom Summer

as Self - Historian

Out of Luck

as Himself