Jonathan Eig
American journalist and biographer
Jonathan Eig is an American journalist and biographer. His book King: A Life, about Martin Luther King Jr., won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for biography.
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American Born 1964 in Brooklyn, United States
About Jonathan Eig
Jonathan Eig, born in 1964, is a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal. He has written six books, and four of them made the New York Times best-seller list. King: A Life, published in 2023, is his biography of Martin Luther King Jr. It won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for biography. His earlier biography Ali: A Life received a PEN America literary prize in 2018. Eig also worked as a consulting producer on the PBS documentary series about Muhammad Ali. His first book, Luckiest Man, is about the baseball player Lou Gehrig.