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Journalist and Author Jonathan Eig will Present as an Auditorium Speaker
Jonathan Eig is a journalist and a New
York Times best-selling author. He has written five books: Luckiest Man: The Life and
Death of Lou Gehrig; Opening Day: The Story
of Jackie Robinson's First Season; Get Capone:
The Secret Plot that Captured America's Most
Wanted Gangster; The Birth of the Pill: How
Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched
a Revolution; and Ali: A Life.
Ali: A Life released last Fall is a stunning
portrait of a man who became a legend. The
book is the first biography that details Muhammad Ali's entire life. Based on more than
600 interviews with more than 200 people
over the course of five years, one might think
that the process would have left Eig exhausted.
But he says, ebulliently, "It's the most fun I

Obama
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of Penguin Random House, and will be
released simultaneously in 24 languages.
Considered one of the most popular first
ladies of recent times, Obama, in her book,
invites readers into her world, chronicling
the experiences that have shaped her - from
her childhood on the south side of Chicago
to her years as an executive balancing the
demands of motherhood and work - to her
time spent at the world's most famous address. Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming
is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman
of soul and substance who has steadily de-

Jonathan Eig
Auditorium Speaker Series

Sunday 6/24, 8:30 - 9:30 a.m.
Sponsored by Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt

have ever had working on a book. I actually
told my editor that I wanted to work on this
book until I die." Eig uncovered thousands of
pages of previously unreleased FBI and Justice
Department files, as well dozens of hours of
newly discovered audiotaped interviews from
the 1960s.
Ali: A Life was named winner of the PEN/
ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, best
book of the year by Sports Illustrated, and one

Writing Becoming
"allowed me, for the very
first time, the space to
honestly reflect on the
unexpected trajectory
of my life. I hope my
journey inspires readers
to find the courage to
become whoever they
aspire to be."
fied expectations - and whose story inspires
us to do the same.
Obama has described writing Becoming
as "a deeply personal experience. It has al-

of the ten best nonfiction
books of the year by the
Wall Street Journal. It
was a finalist for Mark
Lynton History Prize, the
Plutarch Award, the William Hill Sports Book of
the Year, and an NAACP
Image Award.
Eig is a former staff
writer for the Wall Street
Journal, where he remains a contributing Jonathan Eig (photo by Joe Mazza, Brave Lux)
writer, and has written for the New York Times, documentary on Muhammad Ali.
His session is sponsored by Houghton
the New Yorker, the Washington Post, Slate.
com, and others. He is currently working with Mifflin Harcourt.
Get details and add to your schedule now.
Ken Burns and Florentine Films in making a
lowed me, for the very first time, the space
to honestly reflect on the unexpected trajectory of my life. I hope my journey inspires
readers to find the courage to become
whoever they aspire to be. I can't wait to
share my story."
A product of Chicago public schools,
Obama studied sociology and AfricanAmerican studies at Princeton University
and is a graduate of Harvard Law School.
She started her career as an attorney at the
Chicago law firm Sidley & Austin, where
she met her future husband, Barack Obama.
She later worked in the Chicago mayor's office, at the University of Chicago, and at the
University of Chicago Medical Center. Mrs.

Obama also founded the Chicago chapter of
Public Allies, an organization that prepares
young people for careers in public service.
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