Pulitzer winners revisited on air

WKNO FM used its April 11, 2026 “Book of the Day” segment to bring two 2024 Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction books back on the air: Jonathan Eig’s *King: A Life* and Nathan Thrall’s *A Day in the Life of Abed Salama*. (wknofm.org) The Memphis public radio station said the episode revisited earlier conversations with both authors, and it posted the segment on Saturday, April 11, at 5:00 a.m. Central Daylight Time. (wknofm.org) Eig’s book won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and the Pulitzer board described it as a portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. built from new sources that traces both his public leadership and private struggles. (pulitzer.org) Thrall’s book won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and the Pulitzer board said it uses one Palestinian father’s search for his five-year-old son after a school bus crash to examine the larger realities of life in Israel and the West Bank. (pulitzer.org) The pairing puts two different kinds of reported nonfiction in one radio roundup: a 688-page civil rights biography published in May 2023 and a 272-page work of narrative reporting published in October 2023. (us.macmillan.com) (books.google.com) Eig’s publisher says *King: A Life* is the first major King biography in decades to incorporate recently declassified Federal Bureau of Investigation files, while Eig’s own site says it drew on hundreds of interviews and thousands of newly discovered documents. (us.macmillan.com) (jonathaneig.com) Thrall’s publisher says *A Day in the Life of Abed Salama* centers on a deadly accident outside Jerusalem, and the book’s account follows how security rules and movement restrictions shaped the emergency response. (us.macmillan.com) WKNO’s post places the segment inside its broader weekend “Book of the Day” feed, where the station says episodes are posted on Saturdays and Sundays. (wknofm.org) By revisiting both Pulitzer winners in a single broadcast, WKNO turned a short weekend book segment into a compact replay of two of nonfiction’s biggest 2024 prize books. (wknofm.org)