If you want to save this summary for later, download the free PDF and read it whenever you want.ĭownload PDF Lesson 1: The events of your childhood will shape you for the rest of your life. Sometimes you have to get totally lost to find yourself.Īre you ready to learn from one of the most interesting figures in human history? All aboard the autobiography train!.What happens in your childhood will leave a mark on you for life.I looked at his life and tried to come up with 3 lessons from it, here they are: Lucky for historians, political activists and you and me, he’d been working on an autobiography for the two years prior to this tragic event, collaborating with journalist Alex Haley to get his story out into the world.Ĭonsidered a ghostwriter by Malcolm, Haley actually shaped The Autobiography Of Malcolm X and Malcolm’s story in big ways, for example by getting him to keep sections about the Nation of Islam, from which X had distanced himself in 1964, and re-writing anti-semitic sections. In the case of Malcolm X, it’s all the more surprising that we have one, given his assassination in 1965, when he was just 39 years old. Often, the people we most crave an autobiography from wait until the last minute to publish one, for example Sam Walton or Steve Jobs, who published theirs shortly before their deaths. Some people die early, others don’t think of it as important.
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