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Book excerpt: The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
A National Book Award winner for Best Nonfiction of 2020, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X (Liveright) was begun nearly three decades ago by Les Payne, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and completed by his daughter, researcher Tamara Payne.
The book sets the story of Malcolm Little s life against the backdrop of American history, and through hundreds of hours of interviews the authors conjure a biography that rewrites the known arc of the human rights advocate s life and death.
Read the introduction to the book below.