Special Fathers' Network Podcast

Our guest this week is Jonathan Eig, of Chicago, a journalist, best-selling author, father of two daughters and guardian.Jon and his wife, Jennifer, have been married for 27 years and are the proud parents of two daughters: Lillian (20) and Lola (14) as well as Jeffrey (33) who Jon mentored from Jeffrey's age seven through Big Brothers/Big Sisters before the couple formally became his guardian. With a degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, he began his career at the New Orleans Times Picayune, then Dallas Morning News, Chicago Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal. Starting in 2005 Jon published his first best-selling biography: Luckiest Man: The Life And Death Of Lou Gehrig. He went on to publish Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season (2007), Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America’s Most Wanted Gangster (2010), The Birth Of The Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex & Launched a Revolution (2014), Ali, A Life (2017), and King, A Life (2023).J