NEWS & REVIEWS

"Eig gave a talk at Colgate due, in part, to the importance of the Colgate connections he had in writing the book," Colgate Maroon-News'...

The Detroit Free Press interviewed Eig about the terrifying excitement of biography writing and his research process, guided by the...

Host Sharon McMahon of Here’s Where It Gets Interesting talks with Jonathan Eig, the author of the new Martin Luther King Jr. biography,...

Explore the legendary life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with Pulitzer Prize author Jonathan Eig in this captivating interview with Dr....

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 . . ....