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The Autobiography of Malcolm X (ISBN 0-345-35068-5) was written by
Alex Haley between 1964 and
1965, as told to him through conversations with Malcolm conducted shortly before
Malcolm X's death (and with an epilogue after it), and published in 1965. The book was named by
Time magazine as one of the ten most important
nonfiction books of the
20th century.
The screenplay for the 1992
Spike Lee film
Malcolm X was adapted from
The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
The book describes Malcolm X's upbringing in
Michigan, his maturation to adulthood in Boston and New York, his time in prison, his conversion to
Islam, his ministry, his travels to
Africa and to
Mecca, and his subsequent career and eventual assassination at the
Audubon Ballroom near 166th Street and Broadway in New York City. The book contains a substantial amount of thought concerning African-American existence.
Haley stated in the documentary
Eyes on the Prize that it was difficult to write the autobiography because Malcolm X was quite averse to talking about himself and preferred instead to talk about the Nation of Islam.
There are exaggerations and inaccuracies in the book, some of which were acknowledged by Haley. For example, Malcolm X describes an incident in which he pointed a gun with a single bullet to his head in front of his criminal cohorts and repeatedly pulled the trigger in order to show them he wasn't afraid to die. In the epilogue, Haley writes that when Malcolm was proof-reading the manuscript he told Haley that he'd palmed the bullet and staged the act in order to scare the others into obedience.
In 2005 historian
Manning Marable, for his book, claimed that Haley worked with the FBI while writing the book with Malcolm X. He also talked about the existence of three unpublished chapters of the book.
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