![]() ![]() The book won best biography and best overall book in the British Sports Book Awards. It was a finalist for Mark Lynton History Prize the Plutarch Award the William Hill Award the James Tait Black Award for biography an L.A. Esquire magazine called Ali one of the 35 best sports books ever written. Ali won the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting.Īli was named best book of the year by Sports Illustrated one of the ten best non-fiction books of the year by The Wall Street Journal and one of the New York Times’ notable books of 2018. His first book, Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig, won the Casey Award for best baseball book of the year. ![]() His books have been published in more than a dozen languages. He is a former staff writer for The Wall Street Journal. Ken Burns calls him a “master storyteller.” Joyce Carol Oates referred to his book, Ali: A Life, as “an epic of a biography.”Įig was born in Brooklyn and graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Jonathan Eig is the author of five books, three of them New York Times best sellers. ![]()
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