Awards & Winners

Taylor Branch

Date of Birth 14-January-1947
Place of Birth Atlanta
(Georgia, United States of America, Fulton County, Area code 470, Area code 678, Area code 404)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Historian, Writer, Social Historian, Author, Journalist, Essayist
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.

Awards by Taylor Branch

Check all the awards nominated and won by Taylor Branch.

2007


Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Honored for : At Canaan's Edge

2006


Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Nonfiction At Canaan's Edge
National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography At Canaan's Edge

1989


Pulitzer Prize for History
Honored for : Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Honored for : Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963
Ambassador Book Award for Biography & Autobiography
Honored for : Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963

Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Nonfiction Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963
Pulitzer Prize for History Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963

1988


National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction
Honored for : Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963