Jonathan Eig.
JONATHAN EIG
KING: THE LIFE OF MARTIN LUTHER KING(2023)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2024,
Selected by Barack Obama as one of his favourite books, 2023.
Martin Luther King (born 1929) was a black Baptist minister. He was a key leader of the American civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s and a proponent of non-violent demonstration. He was tragically assassinated in 1968.
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Jonathan Eig (born 1964) grew up in New York. After a degree in journalism he worked for newspapers in New Orleans, Dallas, and Chicago. He has written as a freelancer for the New York Times and the New Yorker. In addition to his King biography Eig has written biographies of the boxer Muhammad Ali, the baseball star Lou Gehrig, and the gangster Al Capone.
