Taylor Branch
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Taylor Branch (born January 14, 1947) is an American author and historian who wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning trilogy chronicling the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and much of the history of the American civil rights movement. The final volume of the 2,912-page trilogy, collectively called America in the King Years, was released in January 2006, and an abridgment, The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement, was published in 2013.
Biography
Early life and education
Branch graduated from
Career
Branch served as an assistant editor at
In 1972, Branch worked for the
Branch's book on former president Bill Clinton, The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History With The President, was written from many tape-recorded interviews and conversations between the two, most of which occurred in the White House during Clinton's two terms in office and which were not disclosed publicly until 2009 at the time of the book's publication.
Branch was a lecturer in politics and history at Goucher College from 1998 to 2000.[citation needed] Branch has also taught at the University of Baltimore.
Taylor Branch received a five-year
In 2013, he co-produced Schooled: The Price of College Sports based on his 2011 book The Cartel.[4]
in 2015, he received the BIO Award from Biographers International Organization, for his contributions to the art and craft of biography.[5]
Israeli citizenship controversy
A group of Black Hebrew Israelites described as a cult in The New York Times were systematically denied Israeli citizenship over several decades. In 1981, a group of American civil rights activists led by Bayard Rustin investigated and concluded that racism was likely not the cause of the Black Hebrews' treatment.[6] In 1992, Branch opined that the Black Hebrew Israelites' denial of citizenship under the Israeli law of return was because of alleged anti-Black sentiment among Israeli Jews.[7] In 1998, Branch was criticized by Seth Forman, who said Branch's claims seemed to be baseless, particularly in light of Israel's airlift of thousands of black Ethiopian Jews in the early 1990s.[8]
Family
Branch lives in
Books
- Blowing the Whistle: Dissent in the Public Interest (with Praeger: 1972)
- Second Wind (with Bill Russell) (Random House: 1979)
- The Empire Blues (fiction) (Simon & Schuster: 1981)
- Labyrinth (with ISBN 0-14-006683-7)
- Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 (Simon & Schuster: 1988)
- Pulitzer Prize for History, 1989
- National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction, 1988
- English-Speaking Union Book Award, 1989
- Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, 1989
- (Finalist): Nonfiction, 1989
- Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65 (Simon & Schuster: 1998)
- American Bar Association, Silver Gavel Award, 1999
- Imus Book Award, 1999
- The Hillman Prize, 1998[9]
- At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968 (Simon & Schuster: 2006)
- Heartland Prize for nonfiction, Chicago Tribune, 2006.[10]
- The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President (Simon & Schuster: 2009)[11][12]
- The Cartel: Inside the Rise and Imminent Fall of the NCAA (Byliner, 2011)
- The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement (Simon & Schuster 2013)
References
- ^ "BHS senior awarded Morehead-Cain scholarship". The Transylvania Times. 3 May 2022. Retrieved 2022-05-20.
- ^ "King biographer latest Literary Peace Prize honoree".
- ^ "Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Edwin C. Moses". www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org.
- IMDb
- ^ The BIO Award, Biographers International Organization Archived 2016-03-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Shipler, David K. (January 30, 1981). "Israelis Urged To Act Over Black Hebrew Cult". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-05-28.
- ^ Branch, Taylor "Blacks and Jews: The Uncivil War", in Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews (Salzman, Ed), 1992
- ^ Forman, Seth, Blacks in the Jewish Mind: A Crisis of Liberalism, NYU Press, 1998, p. 14-15
- ^ "The Hillman Prize Previous Honorees". 2009. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
- ^ "Taylor Branch and Louise Erdrich Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, 2006 (video)". Chicago Humanities Festival. 5 November 2006. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
- ^ "The Clinton Tapes, Wrestling History with the President". Retrieved December 14, 2012.
- ^ Klein, Joe (September 24, 2009). "Bill Session". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 24, 2012. Retrieved August 26, 2022.
External links
- Official website
- Inventory of the Taylor Branch Papers, 1865-2005, at the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Appearances on C-SPAN