A New York Times bestseller, the definitive biography of "The Greatest" heavyweight boxing champion and American icon.Winner of the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing Winner of The Times Sports Biography of the Year"As Muhammad Ali's life was an epic of a life so Ali: A Life is an epic of a b...

Hailed as “the most compelling account of [Martin Luther] King’s life in a generation” by the Washington Post, the Pulitzer Prize–winning bestseller is now adapted for young adults in this new standard biography of the most famous civil rights activist in American History.Often regarded as more of a myth and legend than man, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was many things throughout his storied life: student, activist, preacher, dreamer, father, hu...

**"Bracing, brilliant, and fury-inducing.... a survival story like no other. With positively outstanding storytelling, this is a book that cannot be put down." —Booklist, starred reviewAN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVEROne of Booklist’s Best Memoirs of 2024One of Booklist Editors' Choice Adult Books for Young Adults, 2024**Banning Lyon was an average 15-year-old, living in Dallas, TX. He enjoyed skateboarding, listening to...

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHYFeatured on Amazon's Al Woolworth's Top 10 Books of the Past 25 YearsA finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award | Named one of the ten best books of 2023 by The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and TimeA New York Times bestseller and notable book of 2023 | One of Barack Obama’s favorite books ...

**A Chicago Tribune "Best Books of 2014" • A Slate "Best Books 2014: Staff Picks" • A St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Best Books of 2014"The fascinating story of one of the most important scientific discoveries of the twentieth century.**We know it simply as "the pill," yet its genesis was anything but simple. Jonathan Eig's masterful narrative revolves around four principal characters: the fiery feminist Margaret Sanger, who was a champion of birth cont...

In the winter of 1950, Margaret Sanger, then seventy-one, and who had campaigned for women's right to control their own fertility for five decades, arrived at a Park Avenue apartment building. She had come to meet a visionary scientist with a dubious reputation more than twenty years her junior. His name was Gregory Pincus.In The Birth of the Pill, Jonathan Eig tells the extraordinary story of how, prompted by Sanger, and then funded by the wealthy widow and philanthropist...

The definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball legend Lou Gehrig.Lou Gehrig was a baseball legend—the Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man whose consecutive-games streak was ended by a horrible disease that now bears his name. But as this definitive new biography makes clear, Gehrig’s life was more complicated—and, perhaps, even more heroic—than anyone really knew.Drawing on new intervie...

**“Narrator Dion Graham is a masterful and much-loved narrator whose voice will pull listeners into the story of one of the 20th century's most important people.” —Booklist"This gripping biography of a revolutionary leader flies by. Listeners interested in a new perspective of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life will be captivated." —Library JournalHailed as “the most compelling account of [Martin Luther] King’s life in a generation” by the Washington Post, the ...

**BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR.SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2017.SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR.WINNER OF THE PEN/ESPN AWARD FOR LITERARY SPORTS WRITING.THE TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR.The most comprehensive and definitive biography of Muhammad Ali that has ever been published, based on more than 500 interviews with those who knew him best, with many dr...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | Winner of the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing | Winner of The Times Sports Biography of the Year | The definitive biography of an American icon, from a best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author with unique access to Ali’s inner circle.""Finally Muhammad Ali has a biography as big, complex, and memorable as the man himself."" —T.J. Stiles, author of Custer's Trials and The First Tycoon

The definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball legend Lou Gehrig.Lou Gehrig was a baseball legend—the Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man whose consecutive-games streak was ended by a horrible disease that now bears his name. But as this definitive new biography makes clear, Gehrig’s life was more complicated—and, perhaps, even more heroic—than anyone really knew.Drawing on new intervie...

**BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR.SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2017.SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR.WINNER OF THE PEN/ESPN AWARD FOR LITERARY SPORTS WRITING.THE TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR.The most comprehensive and definitive biography of Muhammad Ali that has ever been published, based on more than 500 interviews with those who knew him best, with many dr...