NEWS & REVIEWS

King: A Life is one of ten nominees in nonfiction for the National Book Award . Read details here.

“Supple, penetrating, heartstring-pulling and compulsively readable . . . The first comprehensive biography of King in three decades . ....

"King: A Life might be described as a deeply reported psychobiography . . . infused with the narrative energy of a thriller . . . Eig...

"Jonathan Eig’s magnificent new biography is an overdue attempt to grapple with King in all his complexity. His book will inevitably draw...

David Garrow writes in The Spectator that King: A Life, by Jonathan Eig, will succeed Garrow's own Bearing the Cross as the standard...

A phone call from MLK to Harry Belafonte changed both men's lives, as I wrote in The New York Times. Read the full story here.

In The New York Times, Jeanne Theoharis and I wrote about the mistake many of us making in letting LBJ, the media and the general public...

Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg asked me to explain why I decided to write a book about MLK. I said I was trying to learn from...

I reviewed Leta McCollough Seletzky's fascinating book about her father's role as a police informant during the civil rights movement....

Writing in The New York Times, J. Howard Rosier calls Jonathan Eig's King: A Life with "plenty of new detail" that allows King to "emerge...

"A must for readers interested in moving beyond clichéd catchphrases to see a more complete and complex King..." Read the full review here.

When the good folks at Famous Writing Routines asked me to describe my process (and show them my office), I couldn't say no. Read my Q&A...

Eig (Ali, 2017) has a dream that Americans will remember more about our most famous civil rights icon than one, partially improvised...

Lillian Young created a portait of Dr. King using only the words of my favorite King speech, "A Time to Break Silence." In this...

Here's the Kirkus review of King: Definitive life of the champion of civil rights. Having placed Muhammad Ali in the canon of civil...

"[A] sweeping biography. Eig gives a rousing recap of King’s triumphs as a civil rights leader . . . [A] complex, nuanced portrait . . ....

He picked her up for their first date in his green Chevy. She wore a light-blue suit under a long black coat. It was a rainy day in...

Thank you, Mary Wisniewski and NEW CITY, for the kind write-up ... Just when you think Jonathan Eig can't possibly top his last...

"With civil rights and its history in peril, the upcoming biography, 'King: A Life,' is a groundbreaking book by Chicagoan Jonathan Eig."...

"KING: A Life" was just included in BookPage's 2023 preview: Most anticipated nonfiction. "Among these 33 nonfiction books we can’t wait...