Books by Tamara Payne
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
by Les Payne & Tamara Payne
🏆 Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
“It is remarkable that the Paynes did not simply visit archives, they created the archive through thousands of eye-witness reports and personal documents. They went way beyond the declassified FBI files and secondhand stories of the legend of Malcolm’s transformation. Payne may have drawn on his journalistic skills to build this biography on first-hand accounts, oral history, but he also worked as a historian to contextualize these contradicting accounts and synthesize them into an extraordinary narrative.” Read more...
The Best Biographies: the 2021 NBCC Shortlist
Elizabeth Taylor, Biographer
Interviews where books by Tamara Payne were recommended
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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
by Jason Roberts -
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
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King: A Life
by Jonathan Eig -
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G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
by Beverly Gage -
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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
by Les Payne & Tamara Payne
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographies
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographies
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography is awarded annually to “a distinguished and appropriately documented” biography by an author from or based in the United States. The authors of winning books receive $15,000, and join a starry pantheon of great American writers. Here, we’ve put together a summary of all the Pulitzer-winning biographies since the turn of the millennium.
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Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
by Amy Stanley -
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The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
by Zachary D. Carter -
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
by Heather Clark -
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The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s
by Maggie Doherty
The Best Biographies: the 2021 NBCC Shortlist, recommended by Elizabeth Taylor
The Best Biographies: the 2021 NBCC Shortlist, recommended by Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor, the author, critic and chair of the National Book Critics’ Circle biography committee, discusses their 2021 shortlist for the title of the best biography—including a revelatory new book about the life of Malcolm X, a group biography of artists in the 1960s, and a book built from a cache of letters written in Japan’s shogun era.
