Taylor Branch, American historian and author

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.