Jonathan Eig is the bestselling author of six books\, including his most recent\, Pulitzer Prize-winning King: A Lif e. Vividly written and exhaustively researched\, it is the first major bio graphy in decades of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.―and t he first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory ne w portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world\, Eig gives us an intimate view of King\, who masterfully employed peaceful protest in t he streets but was rarely at peace with himself. From the classroom to the pulpit to the streets of Birmingham\, Selma\, and Memphis\, Eig dramatica lly re-creates the journey of a man who recast American race relations and became our only modern-day founding father―as well as the nation&r squo\;s most mourned martyr.
\nEig began his writing career at age 1 6\, working for his hometown newspaper\, The Rockland County Journal News (N.Y.). He studied journalism at Northwestern University\, and went on to work as a reporter for The New Orleans Times-Picayune\, The Dallas Morning News\, Chicago Magazine\, and The Wall Street Journal.
\n​Ac cording to his parents\, his greatest claim to fame is that his name once appeared in a Jeopardy! question. Eig lives in Chicago with his wife and c hildren and shares office space with the laundry machines.
\nMark Ba zer will join Jonathan in conversation. The host of The Interview Show\, B azer also frequently moderates events for Chicago Humanities and is a cont ributing writer for Chicago magazine.
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