Taylor Branch

Taylor Branch is an American author and historian, best known for America in the King Years, a trilogy chronicling the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and much of the history of the civil rights movement. The series is made up of Parting the Waters, Pillar of Fire, and At Canaan's Edge, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning set runs to 2,912 pages. Branch later condensed the material into The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement, published in 2013.