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The award winning biography of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne, from Liveright Publishing Corp., was released in October 2020 during the pandemic and two years after the sudden passing of Les Payne. His daughter, Tamara Payne, who is also the chief researcher, carried the project to its completion.
Tracing Malcolm X's st
The award winning biography of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne, from Liveright Publishing Corp., was released in October 2020 during the pandemic and two years after the sudden passing of Les Payne. His daughter, Tamara Payne, who is also the chief researcher, carried the project to its completion.
Tracing Malcolm X's steps -- from the Nebraska cauldron he was born into and the family life that shaped him to the gunshots that would silence him forever -- Les Payne traveled around the world, conducting hundreds of hours of interviews with Malcolm's family members, childhood friends, classmates, buddies on the streets and in prison, as well as cops, bodyguards, FBI agents, drivers, informers, photographers, journalists, U.N. representatives, African revolutionaries and presidents, sworn enemies, fake followers, and the two men falsely imprisoned for shooting him dead.
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X is the winner of the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction, the 52nd NAACP IMAGE AWARD for Outstanding Literary Work - Biography/Autobiography, and the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
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"Les Payne has written a biography of this African American icon that sets a new standard for investigative journalism."
-- DeWayne Wickham, Founding Dean of Morgan State University's School of Journalism and Communication.
"No one who wishes to reckon with the life of this man, one of the most important African American figures of the twe
"Les Payne has written a biography of this African American icon that sets a new standard for investigative journalism."
-- DeWayne Wickham, Founding Dean of Morgan State University's School of Journalism and Communication.
"No one who wishes to reckon with the life of this man, one of the most important African American figures of the twentieith century, can afford to forgo this account." -- Howard W. French, Columbia University
"Meticulously researched and masterfully reported, this chronicle offers fresh insights and disturbing revelations that, among other things, strengthen the case for government complicity in the murder of Malcolm X. ... A gripping read...[and] a worthy companion to Malcolm's famed autobiography". -- Nathan McCall, Author of Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man In America
"Malcolm's presence is beautifully rendered. ... Nobody has written a more poetic account." -- Michael P. Jeffries, New York Times Book Review
"[The Dead Are Arising is] the most lyrical and complete biography of this uniquely brilliant American ever written. This book is a great read, full of original insights about an elusive figure rendered deeply human." -- David Blight, Author of the Pulitzer Prize -Winning Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
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"Masterful. ... [A] meticulously researched, compassionately rendered, and fiercely analytical examination of the radical revolutionary as a human being." -- Kerri Greenidge, Atlantic
"A brilliant and indispensable depiction of the life of Malcolm X... Using the fruits of decades of interviews, [Payne] brings new information and perspectiv
"Masterful. ... [A] meticulously researched, compassionately rendered, and fiercely analytical examination of the radical revolutionary as a human being." -- Kerri Greenidge, Atlantic
"A brilliant and indispensable depiction of the life of Malcolm X... Using the fruits of decades of interviews, [Payne] brings new information and perspectives on one of the most fascinating and often misunderstood, figures in American history." -- Annette Gordon Reid, Author of The Hemingses of Monticello, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
"Payne's storytelling weave[s] an epic tale of Malcolm's exuberant life, his tragic death, and the Pheonix-like legacy." -- Farah Jasmine Griffin, Author of Harlem Nocturne
"the result of nearly three decades of investigative reporting, The Dead Are Arising is an essential new biography of one of the most compelling political figures of the twentieth century." -- Jill Lepore, Author of These Truths