The Autobiography of Malcolm X  with assistance of Alex Haley
Introduction by M. S. Handler
Epilogue by Alex Haley
Grove Press, Inc.  Twenty-third printing First Paperback Edition 1966
# B-146D
Paperback
4.15 x 7 inches, 460 pages

The biography, published in 1965, of the black militant religious leader and activist who was born Malcolm Little. Written by Alex Haley, who had conducted extensive audio-taped interviews with Malcolm X just before his assassination in 1965, the book gained renown as a classic work on the black American experience. — The Autobiography&n...  more »recounts the life of Malcolm X from his traumatic childhood plagued by racism to his years as a drug dealer and pimp, his conversion to the Black Muslim sect (Nation of Islam) while in prison for burglary, his subsequent years of militant activism, and the turn late in his life to a more orthodox Islam.