The Dead are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne & Tamara Payne

From Liveright Publishing: Finalist — National Book Award for Nonfiction • Excerpted in The New Yorker • New Books to Watch Out for in October — New York Times • Best Books of Fall 2020 — O, the Oprah Magazine, The Week, St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Best New Books to Read in October — TIME An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author’s interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative. 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, Nation of Islam figures, FBI moles and cops, and political leaders around the world. His goal was ambitious: to transform what would become over a hundred hours of interviews into an unprecedented portrait of Malcolm X, one that would separate fact from fiction. The result is this histo