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Author: Haley, Alex, X, Malcolm, Gilroy, Paul

USA

Published on 1 March 2001 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the Penguin Modern Classics’ series.

Paperback | 528 pages
192 x 129 x 25 | 364g

Malcolm X’s The Autobiography of Malcolm X was written in collaboration with Alex Haley, author of Roots, and includes an introduction by Paul Gilroy, author of The Black Atlantic, in Penguin Modern Classics.

From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America’s black ghettos Malcolm X turned, in a dramatic prison conversion, to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. As their spokesman he became identified in the white press as a terrifying teacher of race hatred; but to his direct audience, the oppressed American blacks, he brought hope and self-respect. This autobiography (written with Alex Haley) reveals his quick-witted integrity, usually obscured by