Jonathan Eig

@jonathaneig

Biographer, author, journalist. Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

Chicago jonathaneig.com Joined June 2009

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Jonathan Eig @jonathaneig May 15, 2023

It's here. #KingALife from #FSG. Audiobook narrated by Dion Graham. Order now! a.co/d/iTEnUyi

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Jonathan Eig @jonathaneig 9h

Here's my review of Ep 4 of The Greatest, the new @MuhammadAli TV series on @PrimeVideo .

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Jonathan Eig @jonathaneig 2d

If not for COVID, maybe I would've interviewed Xernona Clayton in person and gotten a peek at this! Oh well, glad it's being preserved. nytimes.com/2026/11/09/art…

www.nytimes.com Martin Luther King’s Lost Draft of ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech Surfaces The document, hand written by Martin Luther King Jr., will be auctioned in January at Christie’s, which expects it to fetch more than $10 million.

Jonathan Eig @jonathaneig 3d

Here's my review of Episode 3 of The Greatest, new Muhammad Ali series on Amazon Prime.

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Jonathan Eig @jonathaneig Sep 7

History Should Haunt Us: I wrote this for @nytopinion as I prepare to watch a play that kind of tears apart one of my books. #BirthofthePill @TimeLineTheatre
nytimes.com/2026/09/07/opi…

www.nytimes.com Opinion | The Older I Get, the Less I Seem to Know I wrote a book about the history of the pill. I never expected to be a character in a play telling the story of what I left out.