Taylor Branch

Taylor Branch (born 1947) is an American author and historian best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning trilogy America in the King Years, chronicling Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement from 1954-1968. Taylor Branch official site. After journalism stints at The Washington Monthly, Harper's, and Esquire, and teaching at Goucher College, he received a MacArthur Fellowship (1991) and National Humanities Medal (1999). com.