
Ali: A Life
#346 of 3,809 books · #154 in Biography & Memoir
Won the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing (2018). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 3 other awards.
Based on more than 500 interviews, including Muhammad Ali's closest associates, and enhanced by access to thousands of pages of newly released FBI records, this is a thrilling story of a man who became one of the great figures of the twentieth century.
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- ISBN-13
- 9780544435247
- Genre
- Topics
Awards
- PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports WritingWon(2018)
- Mark Lynton History PrizeShortlisted(2018)
- The Plutarch AwardShortlisted(2018)
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for BiographyShortlisted(2017)
Other awarded books from Jonathan Eig
- King: A Life (2025)1 win · 20 score
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