Author: Malcolm X with Alex Haley
Date: 1965
Genre: Autobiography
Country: USA
An autobiography written by Muslim American minister and activist Malcolm X in collaboration with American journalist Alex Haley. It was released posthumously on October 29, 1965, nine months after his assassination. Haley coauthored the book based on a series of in-depth interviews he conducted between 1963 and 1965. The Autobiography is a religious conversion narrative which outlines Malcolm X’s philosophy of Black pride, Black nationalism, and pan-Africanism. After Malcolm X was killed, Haley wrote the book’s epilogue,[a] which describes their collaborative process and the events at the end of Malcolm’s life.