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Jonathan Eig

Jonathan Eig
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Jonathan Eig

Jonathan Eig is a former writer and editor for the Chicago bureau of The Wall Street Journal and the former executive editor of Chicago magazine. He is the author of two highly acclaimed bestsellers, Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig and Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season. Luckiest Man won the Casey Award for best baseball book of 2005, and Opening Day was selected as one of the best books of 2007 by the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Sports Illustrated. Mr. Eig lives in Chicago, half a mile from the site of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, with his family.

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New York Times, February 8, 2012
...anything but easy, warned Mr. Newton, whose second crime novel, Start Shooting, was recently released. His fellow instructor, Jonathan Eig, the nonfiction author most recently of Get Capone, described himself to the officers as the good cop to Mr....
New York Times, February 7, 2012
...be anything but easy, warned Mr. Newton, whose crime fiction, Start Shooting, was recently released. His fellow instructor, Jonathan Eig, the nonfiction author most recently of Get Capone, described himself to the officers as the good cop to Mr. Newtons...
Tyler Morning Telegraph, February 5, 2012
...of America?s Imperial Dream. The book?s scholarship and storytelling have been praised by bestselling American historians Adam Hochschild, Jonathan Eig and Eric Jay Dolan, among others.Jones is currently working on his third book, Last Stand at Khe Sanh....
Time Out Chicago, November 17, 2011
...what I’d be without libraries, but I'm fairly certain I wouldn’t be a writer."—Author Jonathan Eig "Under the brilliant leadership of Commissioner Mary Dempsey, the Chicago Public Library System has become the preeminent institution that works, and...
Time Out Chicago, November 10, 2011
...what I’d be without libraries, but I'm fairly certain I wouldn’t be a writer."—Author Jonathan Eig "Under the brilliant leadership of Commissioner Mary Dempsey, the Chicago Public Library System has become the preeminent institution that works, and...
Chicago Tribune, November 7, 2011
...baseball is astonishing. "No other sport comes close to baseball in terms of its literary influences," said Jonathan Eig, author of "Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season" and "Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig." "For a...
Chicago Tribune, November 7, 2011
...baseball is astonishing. "No other sport comes close to baseball in terms of its literary influences," said Jonathan Eig, author of "Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season" and "Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig." "For a...
Coudal Partners Blended Feed, April 29, 2011
...book read in a certain place. Check out hundreds of books Field-Tested online, including entries from George Saunders, Jonathan Eig, Jessa Crispin, Steven Heller, Lori Andrews, Michael Bierut, and many more. Or, buy the Field Tested Books Book which is...