About Manning Marable:
William Manning Marable was an American 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. At the time of his death, Marable had completed a biography of human rights activist Malcolm X entitled Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (2011), for which he won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for History.