MLK, football, sea tragedy: Naples author series topics run the gamut

The Nonfiction Author Series consists of four separate author presentations — each with a hot/cold buffet breakfast and a ...
The Grio

12 books to keep Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy alive year-round

January 15, 2024: Today marks 95 years since the birth of civil rights icon, globally-recognized leader and American hero Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As many of us celebrate his life, it isn’t ...
The New York Times

Martin Luther King Jr. Biographer Wins American History Prize

The New-York Historical Society honor goes to Jonathan Eig, whose “King: A Life” presents the civil rights leader as a brilliant, flawed 20th-century “founding father.” By Jennifer Schuessler Jonathan ...
Chicago Tribune

Chicago author Jonathan Eig wins Pulitzer Prize for his groundbreaking biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Chicago historian Jonathan Eig won a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for biography for “King: A Life,” his 2023 biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., a bestseller widely recognized for its monumental scope and ...
Sarasota Magazine

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Jonathan Eig to Speak in Sarasota on Thursday

Journalist and author Jonathan Eig spent six years—the entire pandemic and then some—holed up in his Chicago laundry-room-slash-office writing King: A Life, a 688-page biography of Martin Luther King ...