Taylor Branch

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Taylor Branch (born January 14, 1947) is an American author and historian best known for his trilogy of books describing Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life and a portion of the American Civil Rights Movement's history.

The third and final volume of the 2,912-page trilogy, which collectively referred to America in the King Years, was published in January 2006, and a brief summary of the trilogy, The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement, was published in 2013.

Early life and education

Branch graduated from The Westminster Schools in Atlanta in 1964. On a Morehead Scholarship, he went to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He obtained his M.P.A. in 1968 and went on to earn his M.A. In 1970, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Branch worked as an assistant editor at The Washington Monthly from 1970 to 1976; he was Washington columnist for Harper's from 1973 to 1977; and he was a Washington columnist for Esquire Magazine from 1976 to 1977. In addition, he has written for a variety of other publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Sport, The New Republic, and Texas Monthly.

Branch served with Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern's Texas campaign in 1972. Branch and Bill Clinton shared an apartment in Austin, and the two became a close couple that continues today. Bill Rodham, Bill's then-girlfriend and Yale Law School classmate, as well as later Clinton's wife.

The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History With The President was written by Branch from many tape-recorded interviews and discussions between the two people, the majority of which occurred in the White House during Clinton's two terms in office and that were not revealed publicly until 2009 at the time of the book's release.

Branch served at Goucher College from 1998 to 2000 as a political and history lecturer.

Taylor Branch was awarded a five-year MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (also known as a "genius grant") in 1991 and the National Humanities Medal in 1999. He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Dayton Literary Peace Prize in 2008, presented to him by special guest Edwin C. Moses.

Schooled: The Price of College Sports, a book by Ed Cartel, was produced in 2013 by Peter Dolch.

He received the BIO Award from Biographers International Organization in 2015 for his contribution to biography research and art.

A group of Black Hebrew Israelites referred to as a cult in the New York Times. Israeli citizens were officially denied Israeli citizenship for many decades. A coalition of American civil rights campaigners led by Bayard Rustin investigated and found that bigotry was not the root of the Black Hebrews' healing in 1981. Branch opined that the Black Hebrew Israelites' denial of citizenship under Israeli law in 1992 was due to alleged anti-Black sentiment among Israeli Jews. Branch was chastised by Seth Forman, who said Branch's allegations seemed to be baseless, particularly in light of Israel's airlift of thousands of black Ethiopian Jews in the early 1990s.

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Career

Branch served as an assistant editor at The Washington Monthly from 1970 to 1976; he was Washington editor of Harper's from 1973 to 1976; and he was a Washington columnist for Esquire Magazine from 1976 to 1977. He has also written for a variety of other publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Sport, The New Republic, and Texas Monthly.

Branch served with Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern's Texas campaign in 1972. Branch and Bill Clinton lived in Austin, Texas, and the two formed a friendship that continues today. He worked with Bill Rodham, Bill's then-girlfriend and Yale Law School classmate, as well as later Clinton's wife.

The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with The President was written by Branch and compiled from many tape-recorded interviews and discussions between the two men, many of which occurred in the White House during Clinton's two terms as president and which were not revealed publicly until 2009, the book's publication date.

Branch, a professor of politics and history at Goucher College from 1998 to 2000.

Taylor Branch was awarded a five-year MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (also known as a "genius award") in 1991 and 1999, as well as the National Humanities Medal. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Dayton Literary Peace Prize in 2008, which was presented to him by special guest Edwin C. Moses.

Based on his 2011 book The Cartel, he co-produced Schooled: The Price of College Sports.

In 2015, he received the Biographers International Organization's BIO Award for his contributions to biography research in both art and craft.

A group of Black Hebrew Israelites identified as a cult in the New York Times. Israeli citizenship has been consistently denied for over a decade. A coalition of American civil rights campaigners led by Bayard Rustin investigated and found that racism was likely not the root of the Black Hebrews' healing in 1981. Branch opined that the Black Hebrew Israelites' refusal of citizenship under Israel's new law was owing to widespread anti-Black sentiment among Israeli Jews. Branch was chastised by Seth Forman, who said that his allegations seemed to be unfounded, particularly in light of Israel's airlift of thousands of black Ethiopian Jews in the early 1990s.

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