Taylor Branch

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author historian human non-fiction writer

Taylor Branch is an American historian and author best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning trilogy on the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement.

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Label	Occurrences
Taylor Branch canonical	3

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	author ⓘ historian ⓘ human ⓘ non-fiction writer ⓘ
awardReceived	MacArthur Fellowship NERFINISHED ⓘ National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction NERFINISHED ⓘ Pulitzer Prize for History NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
educatedAt	Princeton University ⓘ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ
fieldOfWork	American history ⓘ biographical writing ⓘ civil rights movement history ⓘ
gender	male ⓘ
genre	biography ⓘ history ⓘ political non-fiction ⓘ
hasWrittenAbout	Bill Clinton NERFINISHED ⓘ Martin Luther King Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ civil rights movement in the United States ⓘ
influencedBy	American civil rights movement NERFINISHED ⓘ Martin Luther King Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
movement	narrative history ⓘ
nationality	American ⓘ
notableAchievement	produced a comprehensive narrative history of the King years ⓘ
notableFor	trilogy on Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement ⓘ
notableWork	America in the King Years NERFINISHED ⓘ At Canaan’s Edge NERFINISHED ⓘ At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965–68 NERFINISHED ⓘ Parting the Waters NERFINISHED ⓘ Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–63 NERFINISHED ⓘ Pillar of Fire NERFINISHED ⓘ Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963–65 NERFINISHED ⓘ The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President NERFINISHED ⓘ The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement NERFINISHED ⓘ
occupation	author ⓘ historian ⓘ journalist ⓘ writer ⓘ
residence	United States of America ⓘ
subjectOf	discussions on Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy ⓘ interviews on the civil rights movement ⓘ
writingStyle	narrative non-fiction ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

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Subject: Taylor Branch
Description of subject: Taylor Branch is an American historian and author best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning trilogy on the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bancroft Prize → notableRecipient → Taylor Branch ⓘ

Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award → hasNotableRecipient → Taylor Branch ⓘ

Lillian Smith Book Award → notableWinner → Taylor Branch ⓘ