Jonathan Eig

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Jonathan Eig (born April 26, 1964) is a best-selling American author.

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[edit] Biography

Eig was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in Monsey, New York. He attended Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, graduating in 1986.

His first newspaper job was with the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Eig is a former staff writer for The Wall Street Journal, and he remains a contributing writer there. Eig has published magazine stories in Esquire, The New Republic, Men's Health, and other publications.

Eig has taught writing at Columbia College Chicago and lectures at Northwestern. He has spoken to audiences on various topics in the United States, including as the keynote speaker at the 2005 Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He has also traveled the country speaking to organizations raising money for the fight against Lou Gehrig’s Disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), and was honored on the field at Yankee Stadium for his work in raising awareness of the disease.

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[edit] Awards

  • 2005: CASEY Award for best baseball book of the year, Luckiest Man[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ CASEY Award. Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine.

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