“We don’t really do our heroes any good by turning them into mythological figures. “I think it’s important that we treat all of our historical figures as human beings so that we can relate to them in a way that makes it possible to think about doing things with our own lives,” he says. Eig finds further proof that King had a plagiarism problem dating back to high school he also discovers that an oft-quoted King criticism of Malcolm X, from a Playboy interview conducted by Alex Haley, was likely fabricated. Edgar Hoover’s obsession with King into even sharper focus), an unpublished manuscript from King’s father, the papers of King’s personal archivist and more. The author, who started his career as a newspaper and magazine journalist, draws from materials that weren’t available to previous biographers, including recently declassified FBI documents (which bring J. Oates’ “ Let the Trumpet Sound” in 1982, meets that mandate. If you’re going to write a book about King, you’d best come up with something new, and Eig’s “ King: A Life,” the first such bio since Stephen B. I just tried not to think about all that too much, or else I would’ve maybe not even tried.” He’s a saint to many people, and he’s complicated. But King was the most intimidating of them all, because it’s such a big subject. “Every biography is intimidating, because you’re taking someone’s life in your hands.
“It was hugely intimidating,” Eig says in a video interview from his home in Chicago.
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