~ Trade Paperback
~ Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography - 2024, and the Audie Award for Best Non-Fiction Narrator - 2024
~ New Release - 2025
King: A Life
In this landmark biography, Jonathan Eig gives readers a 'King' for our times: a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of history's greatest movements, and whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime.
Mixing revelatory and exhaustive research with brisk and accessible and vivid storytelling, King an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself.
"No book could be more timely than Jonathan Eig’s sweeping and majestic new King. The result is not mythology but a portrait of a man who was all too human, making his remarkable moral choices and struggles relatable to his fellow mortals." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer