King: A Life (Young Adult Edition)

By Jonathan Eig,

With Yohuru Williams and  Michael G. Long

Hailed as "the most compelling account of King’s life in a generation" by The Washington Post, this Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., is now adapted for young adults by two National Book Award Longlisted authors—to be published simultaneously with the paperback edition of the adult book.

From his Georgia childhood in the historically Black neighborhood of Sweet Auburn to his rise as a civil rights leader on the well-walked streets of Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King, Jr., was many things throughout his storied life: an activist, a preacher, a dreamer. At times treated as more myth than man. But in this invigorating, inspiring adaptation of the triumphant bestseller, readers will meet a Dr. King like no other. A human being with his own triumphs and flaws, his own complexities and contradictions.

Condensing the 565-page original into a compact, compulsively readable 190-page narrative, this young adult edition of King: A Life highlights key aspects of the author's never-before-seen research as it reaffirms and recontextualizes the lasting effects and implications of MLK's work for present-day teens, crafting a nuanced portrayal of a man as devoted to his cause as he was complicated by it.

Hardcover / Young Adult Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Social Activists / Social Topics / Civil & Human Rights / History / United States / 20Th Century