Taylor Branch | Pulitzer Prize-winning author presents At Canaan's Edge

Upcoming Events

LIGHT TOURING SCHEDULE. As I finish my next book, my touring schedule has been reduced. Please check Upcoming Events for current schedule.

SIMON AND SCHUSTER to publish the account of President Bill Clinton's Confidential Diary Project. Read the official Press Release or learn more on The New York Times' Web site.

FREELANCE ARTICLE. The April 12, 2007 issue of The New York Review of Books contains my review on soldiers, freedom, and the GI Bill. It's a big story with surprises.

AUDIO AND VIDEO SAMPLES of public lectures on the King years are now posted in Lecture Topics.

My unexpected MUSICAL DEBUT has drawn many smiles but modest sales in the dozens, not millions. Hear samples from Off Our Rocker on the website cdbaby.com.

Taylor Branch is the author of many books and articles,
including Parting the Waters: America in the King Years,
1954-63 and Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years,
1963-65. He lives in Baltimore with his wife
Christina Macy.
Photo Credit: © J. Brough Schamp

At Canaan's Edge — Publisher Announces January 2006 Release

Praise for America in The King Years

At Canaan’s Edge
"A hallmark, essential to an understanding of the civil-rights movement, Dr. King and 20th-century America."
— Kirkus Reviews

Pillar of Fire
"Once more, Branch's national epic is knit together by the charismatic figure of Dr. King. We only think we know this story, which in Branch's masterly version seems freshened and newly impressive, told without cant or cliche."
— Library Journal

Parting the Waters
"Endlessly instructive and fascinating, thorough, stupendous. Now the source and standard in its field."
— The Philadelphia Inquirer, David Levering Lewis