Taylor Branch

Taylor Branch (Atlanta, 14 gennaio 1947) è uno storico statunitense.

Nato a Atlanta, nello stato statunitense della Georgia, figlio di Franktin T. e Jane (Worghinton) Branch. Studiò all'Università della Carolina del Nord a Chapel Hill. Nel 1989 venne premiato con il premio Pulitzer per la storia per Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63.

Sposò Christina Macy da cui ebbe due figli.^[1]

• Blowing the Whistle: Dissent in the Public Interest (1972)
• Second Wind (1979)
• The Empire Blues (1981)
• Labyrinth (con Eugene M. Propper) (1982)
• Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 (1988)
• Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65 (1998)
• At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968 (2006)
• The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President (2009)
• The Cartel: Inside the Rise and Imminent Fall of the NCAA (2011)
• The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement (2013)

• National Book Critics Circle Award: 1988 vincitore nella sezione Saggistica con Parting the Waters: America in the King Years^[2]
• National Book Award per la saggistica: 1989 finalista con Parting the Waters: America in the King Years
• Premio Pulitzer per la storia: 1989 vincitore con Parting the Waters: America in the King Years^[3]
• Anisfield-Wolf Book Award: 1989 vincitore con Parting the Waters: America in the King Years e 2007 alla carriera
• Dayton Literary Peace Prize: 2008 vincitore nella categoria "Lifetime Achievement Award"^[4]

• Wikimedia Commons contiene immagini o altri file su Taylor Branch

• (EN) Sito ufficiale, su taylorbranch.com.
• (EN) Opere di Taylor Branch, su Open Library, Internet Archive.
• (EN) Taylor Branch, su Goodreads.

V · D · M Vincitori del premio Pulitzer per la storia
1917–1925	Jean Jules Jusserand (1917) • James Ford Rhodes (1918) • Justin Harvey Smith (1920) • William Sowden Sims e Burton Jesse Hendrick (1921) • James Truslow Adams (1922) • Charles Warren (1923) • Charles Howard McIlwain (1924) • Frederic L. Paxson (1925)
1926–1950	Edward Channing (1926) • Samuel Flagg Bemis (1927) • Vernon Louis Parrington (1928) • Fred Albert Shannon (1929) • Claude Halstead Van Tyne (1930) • Bernadotte Everly Schmitt (1931) • John Pershing (1932) • Frederick Jackson Turner (1933) • Herbert Agar (1934) • Charles McLean Andrews (1935) • Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin (1936) • Van Wyck Brooks (1937) • Paul Herman Buck (1938) • Frank Luther Mott (1939) • Carl Sandburg (1940) • Marcus Lee Hansen (1941) • Margaret Leech (1942) • Esther Forbes (1943) • Merle Curti (1944) • Stephen Bonsal (1945) • Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1946) • James Phinney Baxter III (1947) • Bernard DeVoto (1948) • Roy Franklin Nichols (1949) • Oliver Waterman Larkin (1950)
1951–1975	Roscoe Carlyle Buley (1951) • Oscar Handlin (1952) • George Dangerfield (1953) • Bruce Catton (1954) • Paul Horgan (1955) • Richard Hofstadter (1956) • George Frost Kennan (1957) • Bray Hammond (1958) • Leonard Dupee White e Jean Schneider (1959) • Margaret Leech (1960) • Herbert Feis (1961) • Lawrence Henry Gipson (1962) • Constance McLaughlin Green (1963) • Sumner Chilton Powell (1964) • Irwin Unger (1965) • Perry Miller (1966) • William Goetzmann (1967) • Bernard Bailyn (1968) • Leonard Levy (1969) • Dean Acheson (1970) • James MacGregor Burns (1971) • Carl Degler (1972) • Michael Kammen (1973) • Daniel J. Boorstin (1974) • Dumas Malone (1975)
1976–2000	Paul Horgan (1976) • David Morris Potter (1977) • Alfred D. Chandler Jr. (1978) • Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1979) • Leon Litwack (1980) • Lawrence A. Cremin (1981) • C. Vann Woodward (1982) • Rhys Isaac (1983) • Thomas K. McCraw (1985) • Walter A. McDougall (1986) • Bernard Bailyn (1987) • Robert Bruce (1988) • James M. McPherson e Taylor Branch (1989) • Stanley Karnow (1990) • Laurel Ulrich (1991) • Mark Neely, Jr. (1992) • Gordon Wood (1993) • Doris Goodwin (1995) • Alan Taylor (1996) • Jack Rakove (1997) • Edward Larson (1998) • Edwin Burrows e Mike Wallace (1999) • David Kennedy (2000)
2001–2025	Joseph Ellis (2001) • Louis Menand (2002) • Rick Atkinson (2003) • Steven Hahn (2004) • David Fischer (2005) • David Oshinsky (2006) • Gene Roberts e Hank Klibanoff (2007) • Daniel Howe (2008) • Annette Gordon-Reed (2009) • Liaquat Ahamed (2010) • Eric Foner (2011) • Manning Marable (2012) • Fredrik Logevall (2013) • Alan Taylor (2014) • Elizabeth A. Fenn (2015) • T.J. Stiles (2016) • Heather Ann Thompson (2017) • Jack E. Davis (2018) • David W. Blight (2019) • W. Caleb McDaniel (2020) • Marcia Chatelain (2021) • Nicole Eustace e Ada Ferrer (2022) • Jefferson Cowie (2023) • Jacqueline Jones (2024)

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