Muhammad Ali proclaimed himself “The Greatest,” which, when it comes to his boxing, is debatable, but not when it comes to his legacy as an athlete who spoke out on social issues. Jonathan Eig ...

Ali would have been a celebrity in any historical era, but the charismatic young boxer, then known as Cassius Clay, was a superstar made for the 1960s at the nexus of the civil-rights movement ...

A new biography on Muhammad Ali offers a provocative view into the life of the former heavyweight champ, including "all the flaws" of "The Greatest of All Time." ...

While Ali is held in history as almost a mythic figure, Eig wanted to show his human side, too. "You sometimes get the feeling that he's the Dalai Lama, the way the media treated him toward the end.

Boxing Great Muhammad Ali's 'Sad Decline' from Brain Damage Explored in New Biography Author Jonathan Eig, who spent four years conducting nearly 500 interviews for Ali: A Life, tells PEOPLE the ...

On Feb. 6, 1967, Muhammad Ali stepped into a boxing ring in the Houston Astrodome to take on then-heavyweight champion Ernie Terrell. Ali was nursing a serious grudge against Terrell, who kept ...

Jonathan Eig, biography author of “Ali: A Life,” toured the former training camp of professional boxer and heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali. (Photo courtesy of Jeff Julian, Fighter’s Heaven) ...

We usually talk about books “hitting” shelves, but in this case, it’s probably more of a punch: Jonathan Eig’s highly anticipated Muhammad Ali biography, Ali: A Life, will be published on ...

Heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali (left) shakes hands with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918 - 1970, right), watched by Ali's manager Jabir Herbert Muhammad (1929 - 2008, centre), circa 1964.

Code Switch Muhammad Ali And Malcolm X: A Broken Friendship, An Enduring Legacy [Boxer] Joe Frazier was a tough kid who came up out of poverty. [Boxer] George Foreman grew up in the ghetto, dirt poor.

For much of his career, boxing great Muhammad Ali was convinced that his brain wouldn’t be affected by the thousands of powerful, crippling blows he received from his opponents, says the author ...

Opinion Column: Fresh off an acclaimed Muhammad Ali biography, Chicago author Jonathan Eig tries his hand at children’s books. And they’re a delight. Beth Rooney/For the Chicago Tribune ...