The Zen of Muhammad Ali: and Other Obsessions Book

The best of Davis Miller’s essays and memoirs – including the award-winning “My Dinner with Ali.”

Collected here for the first time are the best of Davis Miller’s essays and memoirs. The volume contains the celebrated trilogy of award-winning Muhammad Ali pieces, including the classic “My Dinner with Ali,” together with a provocative new essay called “The Yin and the Yang of Muhammad Ali.” The title story “The Zen of Muhammad Ali” was nominated for the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing and was included in the 1994 edition of The Best American Sports Writing. There are also two pieces about Miller’s unusual relationship with another boxer, “Sugar” Ray Leonard, and he continues to explore the Bruce Lee phenomenon – as he did in his acclaimed bestseller The Tao of Bruce Lee. The book concludes with a section of compelling essays about Miller’s own life - “filled with the clarity of ordinary human experience.” (TLS about The Tao of Muhammad Ali).

The Zen of Muhammad Ali tells us about fighting, living, friendship and love. The pieces are arranged - each with an illuminating new note – to form a unique and haunting book.