What would you do if you met your childhood idol? What if your idol invited you into their home, signed everything you had brought with you, and told you to stay for dinner?
Well, that's exactly what happened when writer Davis Miller knocked on Muhammad Ali's door in 1988 in Louisville, Kentucky. It was the start of a lifelong friendship, and it was a friendship that allowed Miller to write about the Ali that not everyone knew (but thought they knew). Miller's latest book is Approaching Ali: A Reclamation In Three Acts. Miller's story "My Dinner with Ali" was judged by David Halberstam to be one of the best American sports stories of the twentieth century.
Miller spoke with Bethany Chafin from his home in Asheville (he grew up in Winston-Salem) about a story that he thinks captures his hero perfectly. Tune in Triad Arts Weekend this Friday at 1pm for an extended interview with Davis Miller.