April 9, 1998
Contact:
Craig D'Ooge (202) 707-9189
Author Taylor Branch to Discuss Latest Book
Writer and historian Taylor Branch will discuss his
latest book, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years,
1963-1965, at the Library of Congress on Thursday, June 18,
at 6 p.m in the Mumford Room, sixth floor, Madison Building,
101 Independence Ave. S.E. The event, co-sponsored by the
Library's Humanities and Social Sciences Division and the
Center for the Book's "Books & Beyond" series, is free and
open to the public.
Taylor Branch won the Pulitzer Prize for history in
1989 for Parting the Waters: America in the King Years,
1954-1963, his first volume of an intended trilogy. As a
history of the civil rights movement and a biography of
Martin Luther King Jr., these two volumes focus on major
social changes in the United States.
Mr. Branch lectures frequently on the civil rights
movement and has written and co-authored fiction and
nonfiction, including Labyrinth (with Eugene Propper, 1982),
The Empire Blues (1981), Second Wind (with Bill Russell,
1979), and Blowing the Whistle (with Charles Peters, 1972.)
He has been a staff member of Washington Monthly, Harper's,
and Esquire.
The Center for the Book was established in the Library
of Congress in 1977 to stimulate public interest in books,
reading, and libraries. The Humanities and Social Sciences
Division provides reference service and collection
development in the Main, Local History and Genealogy,
Business, and Microform reading rooms, and sponsors
lectures in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
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PR 98-060
4/9/98
ISSN 0731-3527