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Taylor Branch

Jan 14, 1947 (78 years old) in Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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.

Known For

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Bill Russell: Legend
Self - Co-Author with Bill Russell, 'Second Wind'
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4 Little Girls
Self - Author
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Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Self
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Citizen King
Self
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Freedom Summer
Self - Historian
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Out of Luck
Himself
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Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
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