Taylor Branch

Taylor Branch is an American author and public speaker best known for his landmark trilogy on the civil rights era, America in the King Years. He has returned to civil rights history in his latest book, The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement (2013). His 2009 memoir, The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President, chronicles an unprecedented eight-year project to gather a sitting president’s comprehensive oral history secretly on tape. His cover story for the October 2011 issue of The Atlantic, “The Shame of College Sports,” touched off continuing national debate. Aside from writing, Taylor speaks before a wide variety of audiences. He began his career as a magazine journalist for The Washington Monthly in 1970, moving later to Harper’s and Esquire. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Read full biography > (Photo Credit: Jean-Pierre Isbendjian)

Praise for the King Era Trilogy

At Canaan’s Edge

“The crowning achievement of Branch’s King trilogy is to show anew the moral power of [nonviolent] philosophy.”
- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“A thrilling book, marvelous in both its breadth and its detail. There is drama in every paragraph.”
- Anthony Lewis, The New York Times Book Review

Pillar of Fire

“By the time you have finished [Pillar of Fire], you feel almost as if you have relived the era, not just read about it.”
– Richard Bernstein, The New York Times

“This is jet-propelled history.”
– James Goodman, The Boston Globe

Parting the Waters

“Right out of the pages of our lives….Compelling portraits, placed in the excitement of a period when oppressed and powerless people moving together changed themselves and their country profoundly and permanently.”

- Eleanor Holmes Norton, The New York Times Book Review

“A compelling story, masterfully told.”
– Richard John Neuhaus, The Wall Street Journal

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