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Jonathan Eig
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Jonathan Eig is an American journalist and biographer recognized for writing comprehensive non-fiction works, including biographies of Muhammad Ali and Martin Luther King Jr.
Biography
Jonathan Eig is an American journalist and biographer born on April 26, 1964. Throughout his career in non-fiction writing, he has authored six books examining the lives of notable twentieth-century figures.
His most recent work is King: A Life, published in 2023. This in-depth biographical account of Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
Eig also created the first complete, unauthorized biography of Muhammad Ali. To document the legendary figure, he conducted more than 500 interviews with Ali's surviving associates, examined thousands of pages of FBI records, and utilized newly uncovered Ali interviews from the 1960s.
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Books by Jonathan Eig
Ali
Ali is an unauthorized biography of Muhammad Ali based on more than 500 interviews with his surviving associates. It incorporates thousands of pages of FBI records and newly uncovered 1960s interviews to examine the legendary figure.