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Marable's Book on Malcolm X is National Book Award Finalist

Wed, Oct 12, 2011

Marable's Book on Malcolm X is National Book Award Finalist

The late Manning Marable, the founding director of Colgate's African-American and Hispanic studies program, has had his biography , Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, named a finalist for the National Book Awards.

The announcement was made in New York this afternoon.

Marable, who taught at Colgate from 1983 to 1986, died just as his critically-acclaimed book was released. He was 60 and a professor at Columbia University at the time of his death in April.

Winners of the award will be announced Nov. 16.

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