Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to Sign Copies of Book in Naperville

NAPERVILLE, IL — He’s a six-time National Basketball Association MVP, a celebrated legend of basketball and all-time leading scorer, an author, a devout Muslim and an insightful commentator of American life, and now Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is coming to Naperville to celebrate his new book, "Writings on the Wall," according to a release from Anderson's Bookshop.

Anderson’s Bookshop in Naperville presents Abdul-Jabbar at a special program and booksigning event at Pfeiffer Hall, 310 E. Benton Ave., on the campus of North Central College, in Naperville, on Thursday, August 25 at 7 p.m.

Tickets are required and available exclusively at kareemandersons.brownpapertickets.com.

About the book:

Since retiring from professional basketball, the Hall of Famer has become a lauded observer of culture and society, a New York Times bestselling author, and a regular contributor to The Washington Post, TIME magazine and TIME.com.

He now brings that keen insight to the fore in Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White, his most incisive and important work of non-fiction in years. Abdul-Jabbar uses his unique blend of erudition, street smarts and authentic experience in essays on the country's seemingly irreconcilable partisan divide - both racial and political, parenthood, and his own experiences as an athlete, African-American, and a Muslim. The book is not just a collection of expositions; Abdul-Jabbar also offers keen assessments of and solutions to problems such as racism in sports while speaking candidly about his experiences on the court and off.

Timed for publication as the nation debates whom to send to the White House, the combination of plain talk on issues, life lessons, and personal stories places Writings on the Wall squarely in the middle of the conversation, as many of Abdul-Jabbar's topics are at the top of the national agenda. Whether it is sparring with Donald Trump, within the pages of TIME magazine, or full-length features in the The New York Times Magazine, writers, critics, and readers have come to agree on what The Washington Post observed: Abdul-Jabbar "has become a vital, dynamic and unorthodox cultural voice."