Taylor Branch is an American author and historian best known for his award-winning trilogy of books chronicling the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and some of the history of the American civil rights movement. The third and final volume of the 2,912-page trilogy — collectively called America in the King Years — was released in January 2006. Branch lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with his wife, Christina Macy, and their two children, Macy (born 1980) and Franklin (b. 1983).
Books in order of publication:
Blowing the Whistle: Dissent in the Public Interest (with Charles Peters) (Praeger: 1972)
Second Wind (with Bill Russell) (Random House: 1979)
The Empire Blues (fiction) (Simon & Schuster: 1981)
Labyrinth (with Eugene M. Propper): (Viking: 1982, Penguin Books: 1983)
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 (Simon & Schuster: 1988)
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65 (Simon & Schuster: 1998)
At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968 (Simon & Schuster: 2006)
The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President (Simon & Schuster: 2009)
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)
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