Jonathan Eig
@jonathaneig
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Biographer, author, journalist. Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Chicago
Joined June 2009
It's here. #KingALife from #FSG. Audiobook narrated by Dion Graham. Order now! https://t.co/QUfkgQms9A
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"I'd have rather knocked out Sonny Liston than written 'The Waste Land'." -- Poet Frank Stanford. Same here.
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In Opinion: “As you look around campus and try to guess which friends you’ll still love and need in your lives forty years from now, you will have a better chance of guessing correctly if you factor in kindness,” writes Opinion Contributor @jonathaneig.
dailynorthwestern.com
Dear Students, Nobody asked, but I’d like to offer a little advice. I’ll make it quick. Look around at your college friends and try to predict which one or two will have the greatest impact on your...
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I loved Bob Kazel. He died Wednesday. I wrote this about him for our old school newspaper.
dailynorthwestern.com
Dear Students, Nobody asked, but I’d like to offer a little advice. I’ll make it quick. Look around at your college friends and try to predict which one or two will have the greatest impact on your...
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Really enjoyed talking #MLK and books with @connectedword on The Peggy Smedley show. https://t.co/TmokiLmBjt.
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At our upcoming annual summit, For the Good of the Public, we are thrilled to welcome @JonathanEig as one of our speakers! Jonathan Eig is author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography "King: A Life." He will speak with us about what the life and work of Rev. Martin Luther King,
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Some people are mad because this #MLK statue looks funny, per @nytimes. But MLK probably would've complained about a town spending $500,000 on a statue instead of helping people in poverty. @OfficialMLK3
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I'm thrilled to join Richard Babcock to discuss his beautiful new novel Thursday night at the Book Cellar in Chicago. And you can join us too. Read more about the book here:
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Richard Babcock's “A Small Disturbance on the Far Horizon” is a gripping thriller that brings to mind Clint Eastwood’s “Unforgiven” and Charles Portis’ “True Grit.”
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Listen to the audiobook—and suddenly, you’re there. ✨ An experience so real, so hypnotizing, it’s like stepping inside the story itself. Full casts, celebrity narrators, and authors bring every word to life. https://t.co/pniM4YAp1C
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I agree with Randall Kennedy: this book by @KevinDSack is a masterpiece. Check it out.
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Kevin Sack chronicles the Charleston, S.C., congregation that was the target of a brutal 2015 hate crime, and the church’s central role in the larger saga of the South.
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Lou Gehrig made his infamous farewell speech in 1939. 86 years later we still don’t have a cure for ALS. But we keep fighting. Thank you, @Reds and @MLB, for supporting ALS advocacy in honor of #LouGehrigDay yesterday. The Hop On A Cure team was honored to be at yesterday's game
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OK, Jeff Pearlman twisted my arm, so I told him what it was really like to win one of them @PulitzerPrizes. Short answer: Really really good.
podcasts.apple.com
Podcast Episode · Two Writers Slinging Yang · 06/03/2025 · 39m
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PBS Weekend did a great report that captured the spirit of my book SPITFIRES and honored the memory of these valiant pilots.
Wednesday is the 80th anniversary of VE Day, marking Germany’s unconditional surrender and the end of WWII in Europe. A new book “Spitfires” tells the little-known contribution American women made to that outcome by flying combat aircraft — not for U.S. forces, which denied them
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If you haven't read King of the North, the new book by @JeanneTheoharis, here's a sample of smart, original insight that you'll find:
time.com
Media outlets that praised Martin Luther King Jr.'s work in the South treated Northern segregation differently.
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What would MLK Do? Please share. @nytopinion
https://t.co/mlhe1Gr6Is
nytimes.com
Dr. King’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail” has some pointed guidance for today’s Trump opposition.
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I'll see you in the funny pages! What an incredible thrill to see today's "Pearls Before Swine" comic strip from the always funny @stephanpastis. Thank you!
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Talked race, police, journalism with @YohanceLacour for the @PulitzerPrizes on the Road Podcast. I learned a lot from this experience.
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In this week's episode of the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast, 2024 winners @jonathaneig and @YohanceLacour discuss the role journalism can still play in helping America heal from the past. Available here (or wherever you get your podcasts): https://t.co/2bey2dPMLV.
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#OTD in 1947, Jack Roosevelt Robinson bravely walked through that door and changed this country for the better. Here’s my painting of the great man at Ebbets Field, August 28, 1949. #jackierobinsonday
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What a kick! Clyde Brittelle, an 9th grader from NYC, interviewed me for his podcast: How to Be a Historian. Check it out!
podcasts.apple.com
Podcast Episode · How To Be A Historian · 04/06/2025 · 35m
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