DATE: 1:30 p.m. Jan. 19, 2009.

EVENT: Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Taylor Branch, who devoted more than two decades chronicling the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., will deliver the Ross School of Business MLK Day lecture.

His talk, “Myth and Miracles from the King Years,” is free to the public and will be followed by a book-signing. No tickets are required.

Branch won the Pulitzer in 1988 for his book “Parting the Waters,” the first volume of the epic trilogy “America in the King Years”?widely considered the definitive history of the modern civil rights era, tracing the tumultuous years between 1954 and 1968. He completed “Pillar of Fire” in 1998 and “At Canaan’s Edge” in 2006.

Branch’s forthcoming book, “The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History in the White House,” will be published this year. His previous books include “Labyrinth,” “The Empire Blues,” “Second Wind,” “Blind Ambition” and “Blowing the Whistle: Dissent in the Public Interest.”

PLACE: Blau Auditorium, Ross School of Business, 701 Tappan St., Ann Arbor.

SPONSOR: Ross School of Business.

MORE INFORMATION: Lynnette Iannace, [email protected]