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Jonathan Eig
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Jonathan Eig
@jonathaneig
Biographer, author, journalist. Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
- How do you celebrate a #Pulitzer? Pick up the kid from school and get DQ! What a feeling! Thanks to everyone who trusted me and helped me tell this story. #KingALife @fsgbooks
- I'm still in shock...and will be for a long time, I think. Thank you to @PulitzerPrizes and everyone who helped and trusted me to tell the story of Martin Luther King Jr. This award celebrates his life.
- Harry Belafonte was one of the nicest (and fiercest) people I met working on my MLK book. When I told him my mom still had a crush on him, he wrote a note for me to give her. It said she had a terrific son, and she must be pretty terrific too. My hero. #RIP.
- I wrote an old-fashioned letter to Sidney Poitier in 2005, asking if had any memories of Jackie Robinson in 1947. Phone rang one day, no caller ID. It's Mr. Poitier. Holy shit. I'm on floor, playing with my daughter and her dolls. Hold on, lemme grab a notebook...
- Um, Donald, please see me after class.Trump on his January 6 speech: "Nobody has spoken to crowds bigger than me. If you look at Martin Luther King when he did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours ... we had more."
00:00 - King: A Life is on the cover of the @nytimesbooks review section…with a rave review by @DwightGarner. I’m so grateful! nytimes.com/2023/05/08/boo…
- Here's what the @chicagotribune thought of MLK in 1966. Noteworthy that they don't use Rev., Dr. or even Jr. for King, but they do use the police superintendent's title. Also no mention of the white mobs that attacked the peaceful marchers.
- Here’s some books that I’m reading this summer. Check them out and let me know what I should be reading next.
