Ali: A Life

Ali: A Life is a biography, chronicling the life of Muhammad Ali, who was previously known as Cassius Clay. Jonathan Eig wrote the book after conducting interviews with 500 people who knew Ali.^[4][5]

In 2019 Men's Health named Ali: A Life the 23rd best sports book of all time.^[3] In 2020, Esquire called Ali one of the 35 best sports books ever written.^[6] In a review, Joyce Carol Oates of The New York Times noted that "...As Muhammad Ali's life was an epic of a life so Ali: A Life is an epic of a biography."^[2] It was a finalist for the 2017 NAACP Image Awards, William Hill Sports Book of the Year.^[7][8] It was a finalist for the 2018 Plutarch Award.^[9] It won the 2018 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing^[10][11][12] It also won the 2018 The Times Biography of the Year^[13] and overall Sports Book of the Year, for the 2018 British Sports Book Awards.^[14] Thomas Hauser, Ali's previous biographer, wrote a more critical review identifying factual errors, inaccuracies about Ali's boxing achievements, and for failing to capture what made Ali an inspiration.^[15]