Taylor Branch to Receive Literary Peace Prize

By Patrick Kowalczyk

May. 07, 2008

This week, PKPR helped announce that the premier chronicler of America�s civil rights era will receive a special Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement.

Taylor Branch, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning trilogy America in the King Years is widely considered the definitive history of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement, will accept the award at a ceremony in Dayton, Ohio on September 28, 2008. Coverage ranged from the Baltimore Sun to Publisher’s Weekly to Mediabistro’s Galley Cat blog.

Permalink | Posted on May 07, 2008 at 12:25 AM by Patrick Kowalczyk
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