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Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Jonathan Eig In-Person
Jonathan Eig is the bestselling author of six books, and the 2024 Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of King: A Life, which was nominated for the National Book Award, featured on Obama’s Reading List of 2023, and hailed as a “monumental” new biography of Martin Luther King Jr. by the New York Times.
Jonathan’s previous book, Ali: A Life, won a 2018 PEN America Literary Award and was a finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize. His works are translated into more than a dozen languages. He served as consulting producer for the Ken Burns-directed PBS series Muhammad Ali. Esquire named Ali: A Life one of the 25 greatest biographies of all time. Joyce Carol Oates called it “an epic of a biography” that “reads like a novel.”
His first book reached No. 10 on the New York Times bestseller list and won the Casey Award. His books have made the best-of-year lists in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Additionally, TimeLine Theatre in Chicago is soon staging his fourth book, The Birth of the Pill, as a theatrical production.
Beginning his writing journey at 16, Jonathan Eig worked for his hometown newspaper, The Rockland County (N.Y.) Journal News. Afterward, he studied journalism at Northwestern University. Then he worked as a reporter for The New Orleans Times-Picayune, The Dallas Morning News, Chicago Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal.
The Today Show, NPR’s Fresh Air, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart have all featured him as a guest. According to his parents, his greatest claim to fame is his name’s appearance in a Jeopardy question, which a contestant correctly solved for $200. He lives in Chicago with his wife and children and shares office space with the laundry machines.
- Date:
- Wednesday, June 25, 2025
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 7:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Auditorium
- Library Name:
- Central Library
- Audience:
- Adult All Ages Senior Teen Young Adult
- Categories:
- Author Reading Special Event