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Taylor Branch and Louise Erdrich Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, 2006

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  • ABOUT Taylor Branch

    Taylor Branch's books include Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65, At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63, among others. Branch has also written for The Washington Monthly, Harper’s, and Esquire. A 1991 MacArthur Fellow, he holds a master’s degree from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Profile

  • ABOUT Louise Erdrich

    Louise Erdrich has written thirteen novels, as well as volumes of poetry, short stories, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel Love Medicine won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse was a finalist for the National Book Award. The Plague of Doves won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Erdrich owns Birchbark Books, an independent bookstore.

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The true measure of what you do in both politics and religion is what you do in the face of fear.       

Click play to listen. Recorded on November 5, 2006.

Taylor Branch and Louise Erdrich accept the 2006 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for the nonfictional At Canaan’s Edge and the novel The Painted Drum, respectively. They contextualize their work, compare their crafts, and reflect on their childhoods and the close relationships they feel to their characters.

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contemporary literature, history, civil rights, Native Americans, Martin Luther King, writing

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