About the Author

Manning Marable, Professor of History and director of the Institute for African-American Studies at Columbia University, has written features in the New York Times and the Nation. His books include Race, Reform, and Rebellion; Beyond Black and White; and Speaking Truth to Power. His public affairs commentary series, "Along the Color Line," is featured in more than 275 newspapers and is broadcast by eighty radio stations in the U.S. and internationally.

Reviews

Malcolm X is etched in the American imagination and the American psyche in the particular and unyielding terms of radical and militant Marable brings a lifetime of study to this biography, which is the crowning achievement of a magnificent career. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University
Manning Marable is the exemplary black scholar of radical democracy and black freedom in our time. His long-awaited magisterial book on Malcolm X is the definitive treatment of the greatest black radical voice and figure of the mid-twentieth century. Glory Hallelujah! Cornel West, Princeton University
Manning Marable s "Malcolm X" is his magnum opus, a work of extraordinary rigor and intellectual beauty This majestic and eloquent tour de force will stand for some time as the definitive work on as enigmatic and electrifying a leader as has ever sprung from American soil. Michael Eric Dyson, Georgetown University, author of "April 4, 1968"
It will be difficult for anyone to better this book... It is a work of art, a feast that combines genres skillfully: biography, true-crime, political commentary. It gives us Malcolm X in full gallop, a man who died for his belief in freedom. The Washington Post
In his revealing and prodigiously researched new biography. . . Mr. Marable artfully strips away the layers and layers of myth that have been lacquered onto his subject s life first by Malcolm himself in that famous memoir, and later by both supporters and opponents after his assassination. Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times"
Unlike Bruce Perry s 1991 biography, "Malcolm," which entertained the most outlandish stories in an attempt to present a comprehensive portrait, Marable s biography judiciously sifts fact from myth. The Atlantic
Magisterial Marable s biography is an exceedingly brave as well as a major intellectual accomplishment. Boston Globe
Marable has crafted an extraordinary portrait of a man and his time A masterpiece. San Francisco Chronicle
This book is a must read. Ebony
Thankfully, we have Manning Marable's new biography, "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention" which is, simply put, a stunning achievement to help us better understand Malcolm s complex life. The Philadelphia Tribune
The book also has much to recommend it for its history of orthodox Islam, the perspective it offers on the black political movements of the 1950s and 1960s that changed America, and its insights into the development and inner workings of the Nation of Islam. The Financial Times
Manning Marable s scholarship was as provocative and profound as it was prodigious. Newsday
[Marable] devoted his magnificent career more than most scholars do to living what he wrote and what he thought. His commitment not only to equality of opportunity but also to the exposure of falsehood and hypocrisy was a hallmark of his pathbreaking work. The Chronicle of Higher Education
Marable accomplishes the difficult task of showing the bad boy of the civil rights era as an actual human being . . . Each page almost secretes the formidable research into hard facts. Marable lets the chips fall where they may because he is interested in the humanity of Malcolm X, as all true scholars should be. New York Daily News
This is history at its finest written with passion and attention and drive. It is a fitting testament to the lives and the legacies of both subject and author. TheBarnesandNobleReview.com
Marable s definitive biography is now the standard by which scholars can evaluate, not just what Malcolm X said, but what generations of others have said about him. The National
This book is not the only representation of Manning's brilliance it is a culmination of a lifetime of scholarship and activism, a larger project devoted to telling the stories of a people engaged in an epic, painful and beautiful struggle for freedom. BlackVoices.com
This superbly perceptive and resolutely honest book will long endure as a definitive treatment of Malcolm s life, if not of the actors complicit in his death. The Wilson Quarterly
The book is cause for celebration . . . The book is full of revelations, big and small, and amounts to a full-on reconsideration of Malcolm s life and death. VeryShortList.com
As Malcolm lived on through his best-selling autobiography, so will Marable, through his unmatched body of writing, his educational contributions, his illuminations on Malcolm X's legacy and his devoted students. CNN.Com
Manning was an unflinching and breathtakingly prolific scholar whose commitments to racial, economic, gender, and international justice were unparalleled . . . That we will have his long-anticipated, great and final work even as he leaves us is so classically, tragically appropriate. The Nation
While Marable himself is irreplaceable, he has provided a foundation for future generations and will continue to shape our understanding of social change and justice. TheRoot.com
A prolific scholar. The Columbia Record"

"It will be difficult for anyone to better this book. It goes deeper and richer than a mere homage to Malcolm X. It is a work of art, a feast that combines genres skillfully: biography, true-crime, political commentary. It gives us Malcolm X in full gallop, a man who died for his belief in freedom, a man whom Marable calls the 'fountainhead' of the black power movement in America."
-"The Washington Post"
"In his revealing and prodigiously researched new biography, "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention," Manning Marable - a professor at Columbia University and the director of its Center for Contemporary Black History, who died just last week - vividly chronicles these many incarnations of his subject. . . Mr. Marable artfully strips away the layers and layers of myth that have been lacquered onto his subject's life - first by Malcolm himself in that famous memoir, and later by both supporters and opponents after his assassination in 1965 at the age of 39."
-Michiko Kakuta

Malcolm X is etched in the American imagination and the American psyche in the particular and unyielding terms of radical and militant Marable brings a lifetime of study to this biography, which is the crowning achievement of a magnificent career. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University
Manning Marable is the exemplary black scholar of radical democracy and black freedom in our time. His long-awaited magisterial book on Malcolm X is the definitive treatment of the greatest black radical voice and figure of the mid-twentieth century. Glory Hallelujah! Cornel West, Princeton University
Manning Marable s "Malcolm X" is his magnum opus, a work of extraordinary rigor and intellectual beauty This majestic and eloquent tour de force will stand for some time as the definitive work on as enigmatic and electrifying a leader as has ever sprung from American soil. Michael Eric Dyson, Georgetown University, author of "April 4, 1968"
It will be difficult for anyone to better this book... It is a work of art, a feast that combines genres skillfully: biography, true-crime, political commentary. It gives us Malcolm X in full gallop, a man who died for his belief in freedom. The Washington Post
In his revealing and prodigiously researched new biography. . . Mr. Marable artfully strips away the layers and layers of myth that have been lacquered onto his subject s life first by Malcolm himself in that famous memoir, and later by both supporters and opponents after his assassination. Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times"
Unlike Bruce Perry s 1991 biography, "Malcolm," which entertained the most outlandish stories in an attempt to present a comprehensive portrait, Marable s biography judiciously sifts fact from myth. The Atlantic
Magisterial Marable s biography is an exceedingly brave as well as a major intellectual accomplishment. Boston Globe
Marable has crafted an extraordinary portrait of a man and his time A masterpiece. San Francisco Chronicle
This book is a must read. Ebony
Thankfully, we have Manning Marable's new biography, "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention" which is, simply put, a stunning achievement to help us better understand Malcolm s complex life. The Philadelphia Tribune
The book also has much to recommend it for its history of orthodox Islam, the perspective it offers on the black political movements of the 1950s and 1960s that changed America, and its insights into the development and inner workings of the Nation of Islam. The Financial Times
Manning Marable s scholarship was as provocative and profound as it was prodigious. Newsday
[Marable] devoted his magnificent career more than most scholars do to living what he wrote and what he thought. His commitment not only to equality of opportunity but also to the exposure of falsehood and hypocrisy was a hallmark of his pathbreaking work. The Chronicle of Higher Education
Marable accomplishes the difficult task of showing the bad boy of the civil rights era as an actual human being . . . Each page almost secretes the formidable research into hard facts. Marable lets the chips fall where they may because he is interested in the humanity of Malcolm X, as all true scholars should be. New York Daily News
This is history at its finest written with passion and attention and drive. It is a fitting testament to the lives and the legacies of both subject and author. TheBarnesandNobleReview.com
Marable s definitive biography is now the standard by which scholars can evaluate, not just what Malcolm X said, but what generations of others have said about him. The National
This book is not the only representation of Manning's brilliance it is a culmination of a lifetime of scholarship and activism, a larger project devoted to telling the stories of a people engaged in an epic, painful and beautiful struggle for freedom. BlackVoices.com
This superbly perceptive and resolutely honest book will long endure as a definitive treatment of Malcolm s life, if not of the actors complicit in his death. The Wilson Quarterly
The book is cause for celebration . . . The book is full of revelations, big and small, and amounts to a full-on reconsideration of Malcolm s life and death. VeryShortList.com
As Malcolm lived on through his best-selling autobiography, so will Marable, through his unmatched body of writing, his educational contributions, his illuminations on Malcolm X's legacy and his devoted students. CNN.Com
Manning was an unflinching and breathtakingly prolific scholar whose commitments to racial, economic, gender, and international justice were unparalleled . . . That we will have his long-anticipated, great and final work even as he leaves us is so classically, tragically appropriate. The Nation
While Marable himself is irreplaceable, he has provided a foundation for future generations and will continue to shape our understanding of social change and justice. TheRoot.com
A prolific scholar. The Columbia Record"
"It will be difficult for anyone to better this book. It goes deeper and richer than a mere homage to Malcolm X. It is a work of art, a feast that combines genres skillfully: biography, true-crime, political commentary. It gives us Malcolm X in full gallop, a man who died for his belief in freedom, a man whom Marable calls the 'fountainhead' of the black power movement in America."
-"The Washington Post"
"In his revealing and prodigiously researched new biography, "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention," Manning Marable - a professor at Columbia University and the director of its Center for Contemporary Black History, who died just last week - vividly chronicles these many incarnations of his subject. . . Mr. Marable artfully strips away the layers and layers of myth that have been lacquered onto his subject's life - first by Malcolm himself in that famous memoir, and later by both supporters and opponents after his assassination in 1965 at the age of 39."
-Michiko Kakuta