Branch shared an apartment in Austin with Bill Clinton, and the two developed a friendship that continues today. In 1972, Branch worked for the Texas campaign of Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern. He also has written for a variety of other publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Sport, The New Republic, and Texas Monthly. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1970.īranch at the LBJ Presidential Library in 2014īranch served as an assistant editor at The Washington Monthly from 1970 to 1973 he was Washington editor of Harper's from 1973 to 1976 Īnd he was Washington columnist for Esquire Magazine from 1976 to 1977.

He graduated in 1968 and went on to earn an M.P.A. From there, he went to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on a Morehead Scholarship. 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.īiography Early life and education īranch graduated from The Westminster Schools in Atlanta in 1964. and much of the history of the American civil rights movement. 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. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ( BA)

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