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jonathan eig martin luther king

Jonathan Eig's new biography examines the life of Martin ...

    Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.―and the first to include recently declassified FBI files.
King: A Life , by Jonathan Eig (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Jonathan Eig

American journalist and biographer (born 1964)

Jonathan Eig (; born April 26, 1964) is an American journalist and biographer. He is the author of six books, the most recent being King: A Life (2023), a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Martin Luther King Jr.[1]

Biography

Eig was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Monsey, New York. He is Jewish.[2] His father was an accountant and his mother was a stay-at-home mom and community activist. Eig began working for his hometown newspaper when he was 16. He attended Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, graduating in 1986 with a bachelor's degree. After college he worked as a news reporter for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, The Dallas Morning News, Chicago magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. Eig has taught writing at Columbia College Chicago and lectures at Northwestern. He has written as a freelancer for many outlets, including The New York Times, Washin

This book is one of the best I've read about civil rights leaders including Martin Luther King.
Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.―and the first to include recently declassified FBI files.
King: A Life is a 2023 biography of Martin Luther King Jr. by Jonathan Eig. It won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

King: A Life - Wikipedia

    The first major biography of King in 40 years, based on hundreds of interviews and thousands of newly discovered documents, this is King like you've never seen him before: flawed, brave, radical and under heavy attack by the FBI.

KING - Kirkus Reviews

    The first major biography of King in 40 years, based on hundreds of interviews and thousands of newly discovered documents, this is King like you've never seen him before: flawed, brave, radical and under heavy attack by the FBI.

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  • King: A Life is a 2023 biography of Martin Luther King Jr. by Jonathan Eig. It won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and was a finalist for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography.
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  • One writer, quoted by Jonathan Eig in his supple, penetrating, heartstring-pulling and compulsively readable new biography, “King: A Life,” called it “the richest Negro street in the world.”.
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      One writer, quoted by Jonathan Eig in his supple, penetrating, heartstring-pulling and compulsively readable new biography, “King: A Life,” called it “the richest Negro street in the world.”.

    King: A Life by Jonathan Eig - Goodreads

  • Jonathan Eig's new biography captures King's enormously canny sense of theatre, his exacting attention to appearances.
  • The New Definitive Biography of Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.—and the first to include recently declassified FBI files.