The National Writers Series will host Martin Luther King, Jr., biographer Jonathan Eig at the City Opera House in Traverse City on Thursday, March 13 at 7 pm. The Glen Arbor Sun spoke with Eig about his portrayal of King, about our collective tendency to oversimplify the icon and forget that in his time he was radical and disruptive, and why we need to hear King’s message in today’s America. “King: A Life” is the first major biography written in decades about the civil rights icon. Vividly written and deeply researched, this revealing portrait by a master storyteller is an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself.
