2024 Pulitzer Prize Biography: King, A Life with Jonathan Eig in conversation with DeVone Holt

2:00PM – 2:45PM

Presented by The Kentucky Book Festival and Kentucky Humanities, this program is part of the main festival on November 2.

Jonathan Eig

King: A Life

Jonathan Eig is a former senior writer for The Wall Street Journal and a New York Times bestselling author of several books that have been listed among the best of the year by The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Sports Illustrated, and Slate.

In this landmark biography, winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award, Eig gives us an MLK for our times: a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of history’s greatest movements, and whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime.

DeVone Holt is a multi-talented leader who combines more than 30 years of experience as a corporate brand manager and public affairs strategist to enhance profit margins and brand equity for a broad spectrum of customers and clients in industries that include workforce/economic development, education, healthcare, entertainment and non-profits.

In September 2024, he was named President and CEO of the Muhammad Ali Center, a non-profit museum and cultural center in Louisville, Kentucky.