JONATHAN EIG

Jonathan Eig is the author of six books, four of them New York Times best sellers. Ken Burns calls him a “master storyteller.” Joyce Carol Oates referred to his book, Ali: A Life, as “an epic of a biography.” His most recent book is King: A Life, a biography of Martin Luther King Jr., which was nominated for a National Book Award and a Book Critics Circle Award.

Eig was born in Brooklyn and graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He is a former staff writer for The Wall Street Journal. His books have been published in 20 languages. His first book, Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig, won the Casey Award for best baseball book of the year. Ali won the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting.

Ali was named best book of the year by Sports Illustrated; one of the ten best non-fiction books of the year by The Wall Street Journal; and one of the New York Times’ notable books of 2018. Esquire magazine called Ali one of the 35 best sports books ever written. The book won best biography and best overall book in the British Sports Book Awards. It was a finalist for Mark Lynton History Prize; the Plutarch Award; the William Hill Award; the James Tait Black Award for biography; an L.A. Times Book Award for biography; and an NAACP Image Award.

Eig has appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and in three Ken Burns documentaries. He served as Consulting Producer on the eight-hour PBS Muhammad Ali documentary.

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