Manning Marable

Biography

William Manning Marable was a professor of public affairs, history, and African-American Studies at Columbia University, where he founded the Institute for Research in African-American Studies. He wrote several texts and was an active voice in progressive political causes. At the time of his death, Marable had completed a biography of Malcolm X, titled Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, which earned him the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for History posthumously.