Shivani ghai biography of martin luther king

CHICAGO (CBS) -- "King: A Life," the new biography of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was on virtually everyone's top 10 list of 2023 – including the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and Time Magazine.

"No book could be more timely than Jonathan Eig's sweeping and majestic new King," wrote Will Bunch in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Author Jonathan Eig was born in Brooklyn and raised in Monsey, New York in Rockland County north of New York City.

But he attended the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and has called Chicago home for many years.

He wrote "King: A Life" in his home office, which doubles as the laundry room.

Eig wrote about a persistent social problem in the book: "But in hallowing King, we have hollowed him - from Montgomery to Chicago along those streets named Martin Luther King Jr.

Drive and Martin Luther King Jr, Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Highway, poverty and segregation rates remain much higher than local and national avera