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Jonathan Eig was born on 26 April, 1964 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., is an American journalist and biographer (born 1964). Discover Jonathan Eig's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 59 years old?

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Occupation Journalist · biographer
Age 59 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 26 April, 1964
Birthday 26 April
Birthplace Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1964

Jonathan Eig (born April 26, 1964) is an American journalist and biographer.

He is the author of six books, the most recent being King: A Life (2023), a biography of Martin Luther King Jr..

Eig was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Monsey, New York.

He is Jewish.

His father was an accountant and his mother was a stay-at-home mom and community activist.

Eig began working for his hometown newspaper when he was 16.

1986

He attended Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, graduating in 1986 with a bachelor's degree.

After college he worked as a news reporter for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, The Dallas Morning News, Chicago magazine, and The Wall Street Journal.

Eig has taught writing at Columbia College Chicago and lectures at Northwestern.

He has written as a freelancer for many outlets, including The New York Times, Washington Post, and online edition of The New Yorker.

He is married to Jennifer Tescher and has three children.

He lives in Chicago.

Reviewing the book for The New York Times, Dwight Garner stated that it "supplants David J. Garrow's 1986 biography Bearing the Cross as the definitive life of King".

2005

Eig's first book was Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig (2005).

Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season was his second book.

For his third book, Get Capone, Eig discovered thousands of pages of never-before-reported government documents on the government's case against Capone.

2010

Eig appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in May 2010.

He has appeared in two PBS documentaries—Prohibition and Jackie Robinson—made by Ken Burns and Florentine Films.

He is currently working with Burns as a consulting producer on a documentary about Muhammad Ali.

2014

The Birth of the Pill (2014), Eig's fourth book, told the story of the renegades who invented the first oral contraceptive.

2016

In 2016, Eig appeared on AMC's The Making of the Mob: Chicago, talking about Al Capone.

2017

In a 2017 review of Ali: A Life, Joyce Carol Oates, writing for The New York Times, said: "This richly researched, sympathetic yet unsparing portrait of a controversial figure for whom the personal and the political dramatically fused could not come at a more appropriate time in our beleaguered American history…. As Muhammad Ali's life was an epic of a life so Ali: A Life is an epic of a biography. Much in its pages will be familiar to those with some knowledge of boxing but even the familiar may be glimpsed from a new perspective in Eig's fluent prose; for pages in succession its narrative reads like a novel — a suspenseful novel with a cast of vivid characters who prevail through decades and who help to define the singular individual who was both a brilliantly innovative, incomparably charismatic heavyweight boxer and a public figure whose iconic significance shifted radically through the decades as in an unlikely fairy tale in which the most despised athlete in American history becomes, by the 21st century, the most beloved athlete in American history."

In 2023, Eig published a biography of Martin Luther King Jr.., King: A Life.

2019

In 2019, Men's Health magazine named Eig's book Ali: A Life the 23rd best sports book of all time.

2020

In 2020, Esquire magazine called Ali one of the 35 best sports books ever written.

Esquire also called Eig's book Luckiest Man one of the 100 best baseball books of all time.