Manning Marable Wins Pulitzer Prize

Manning Marable
1950 - 2011

The 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced today and among them, the late Manning Marable who won the Pulitzer Prize for history Monday, honored for his book, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, which was decades in the making.

Marable was a professor of public affairs, history and African-American Studies at Columbia University. Marable founded and directed the Institute for Research in African-American Studies. Marable authored several texts and was active in progressive political causes.

Marable's Writings:  

• How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America (1983) ISBN 9780896081659
• Race, Reform and Rebellion (1991) ISBN 9780878054930
• Beyond Black and White (1995) ISBN 9781859840498
• Speaking Truth to Power: Essays on Race, Resistance, and Radicalism (1996) ISBN 978-0813388281
• Black Liberation in Conservative America (1997) ISBN 9780896085596
• Black Leadership (1998) ISBN 9780231107464
• Let Nobody Turn Us Around (2000) ISBN 978-0847699308
• Freedom: A Photographic History of the African American Struggle (with Leith Mullings and Sophie Spencer-Wood, 2002) ISBN 978-0714842707
• The Great Wells of Democracy: The Meaning of Race in American Life (2003) ISBN 978-0465043941
• W. E. B. DuBois: Black Radical Democrat (2005) ISBN 978-1-59451-019-9
• The Autobiography of Medgar Evers (2005, with Myrlie Evers-Williams) ISBN 0465021778
• Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (2011) ISBN 978-0670022205

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manning_Marable