JONATHAN EIG is the author of King: A Life (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), the first major biography of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. in decades. A former senior writer for The Wall Street Journal, he is also a New York Times bestselling author of several books, including Ali: A Life, Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig, and Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season.