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Jane Eisner traces the professional accomplishments and personal challenges of pop icon Carole King, exploring her unique contribution to American music.

 Carole King’s extraordinary career has defined American popular music for more than half a century. Born in New York City in 1942, she shaped the soundtrack of 1960s teen culture with such songs as “Will You Love Me Tomorrow,” one of many Brill Building classics she wrote with her first husband, Gerry Goffin. She was a leading figure in the singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s, with dozens of Billboard Hot 100 hits and music awards—her 1971 album Tapestry won a record four Grammys. Yet she struggled to reconcile her fame with her roles as a wife and mother and retreated to the backwoods of Idaho, only to emerge in recent years as a political activist and the subject of the Tony-winning Broadway show Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.
 
Journalist and author Jane Eisner places King’s life in historical and cultural context, revealing details of her humble beginnings in Jewish Brooklyn, the roots of her musical genius, her four marriages, and her anguish about public life. Drawing on numerous interviews as well as historical and contemporary sources, this book brings to life King’s professional accomplishments, her personal challenges, and her lasting contributions to the great American songbook.
 

Jane Eisner is an award-winning journalist, educator, nonprofit leader, and public speaker whose career spans leadership roles in major newsrooms, higher education, and Jewish communal life. She was the first woman to serve as editor-in-chief of the Forward, where she transformed the publication’s digital reach and interviewed world leaders from Barack Obama to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and later directed academic affairs at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. A longtime writer and editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, Eisner has also held senior positions at the National Constitution Center, taught at Wesleyan University and the University of Pennsylvania, and consulted widely for media and nonprofit organizations. She is the author of Taking Back the Vote and contributes to leading outlets including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Atlantic. Her forthcoming book, an interpretive biography of Carole King, will be published in September 2025 by Yale University Press as part of the Jewish Lives series.

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