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Taylor Branch was born on 14 January, 1947 in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., is an American author and historian (born 1947). Discover Taylor Branch's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?
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His wife is Christina Macy
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Taylor Branch Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Taylor Branch worth at the age of 77 years old? Taylor Branch’s income source is mostly from being a successful author. He is from Georgia. We have estimated Taylor Branch's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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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.
Branch graduated from The Westminster Schools in Atlanta in 1964.
From there, he went to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on a Morehead Scholarship.
He graduated in 1968 and went on to earn an M.P.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1970.
Branch served as an assistant editor at The Washington Monthly from 1970 to 1973; he was Washington editor of Harper's from 1973 to 1976;
In 1972, Branch worked for the Texas campaign of Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern.
Branch shared an apartment in Austin with Bill Clinton, and the two developed a friendship that continues today.
He also worked with Hillary Rodham, Bill's then-girlfriend and Yale Law School classmate, and later Clinton's wife.
and he was Washington columnist for Esquire Magazine from 1976 to 1977.
He also has written for a variety of other publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Sport, The New Republic, and Texas Monthly.
Branch lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with his wife, Christina Macy, and their two children, Macy (born 1980) and Franklin (born 1983).
In 1981, a group of American civil rights activists led by Bayard Rustin investigated and concluded that racism was likely not the cause of the Black Hebrews' treatment.
Taylor Branch received a five-year MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (also known as a "genius grant") in 1991 and the National Humanities Medal in 1999.
In 1992, Branch opined that the Black Hebrew Israelites' denial of citizenship under the Israeli law of return was because of alleged anti-Black sentiment among Israeli Jews.
Branch was a lecturer in politics and history at Goucher College from 1998 to 2000.
In 1998, Branch was criticized by Seth Forman, who said Branch's claims seemed to be baseless, particularly in light of Israel's airlift of thousands of black Ethiopian Jews in the early 1990s.
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.
In 2008, he received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's Lifetime Achievement Award, presented to him by special guest Edwin C. Moses.
Branch's book on former president Bill Clinton, The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History With The President, was written from many tape-recorded interviews and conversations between the two, most of which occurred in the White House during Clinton's two terms in office and which were not disclosed publicly until 2009 at the time of the book's publication.
In 2013, he co-produced Schooled: The Price of College Sports based on his 2011 book The Cartel.
in 2015, he received the BIO Award from Biographers International Organization, for his contributions to the art and craft of biography.
A group of Black Hebrew Israelites described as a cult in The New York Times were systematically denied Israeli citizenship over several decades.