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Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to create an unprecedented portrait of Malcolm X, one that would separate fact from fiction. The result is this historic, National Book Award-winning biography,... Read Full Overview

Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X--all living siblings of the Malcolm Little family, classmates, street friends, cellmates,... Read Full Overview

WINNER -- 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION - TIME Magazine -- 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2020 - A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 and Editors' Choice Selection - Best Books of 2020: NPR, Washington Post, Library Journal, Chicago Public Library - Excerpted in The... Read Full Overview