About the speaker: Jonathan Eig is the author of King: A Life, which won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for biography. The New York Times called King “the definitive biography” of Martin Luther King Jr. and a book worthy of its subject. Jonathan is the author of six books, four of them New York Times best sellers. Jonathan’s previous book, Ali: A Life, won the 2018 PEN/ESPN Award. Joyce Carol Oates called it an “epic of a biography” that “reads like a novel. Esquire magazine named Ali one of the 25 greatest biographies of all time. The book also inspired a Ken Burns documentary on Ali, for which Jonathan served as consulting producer. Jonathan’s first book, Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig, reached No. 10 on the New York Times bestseller list and won the Casey Award. His books have been listed among the best of the year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, and have been translated into more than twenty languages.

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