Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography

The age of multitasking needs better narrative history. It must be absolutely factual, immediately accessible, smart, and brilliantly fun. Enter Andrew Helfer, the award-winning graphic-novel editor behind Road to Perdition and The History of Violence, and welcome the launch of a unique line of graphic biographies.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, these graphic biographies qualify as tomes. But if you're among the millions who haven't time for another doorstop of a biography, these books are for you.

With the thoroughly researched and passionately drawn Malcolm X, Helfer and award-winning artist Randy DuBurke capture Malcolm Little's extraordinary transformation from a black youth beaten down by Jim Crow America into Malcolm X, the charismatic, controversial, and doomed national spokesman for the Nation of Islam.

Publisher: Hill & Wang
Published: 10/01/2006
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.86w x 0.53d
ISBN: 9780809095049

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.6
Point Value: 3
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 112080 / Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography


Award: Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam) - Honorable Mention


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/04/2006 pg. 41
Booklist 02/01/2007 pg. 50
Voice of Youth Advocates 04/01/2007 pg. 80 - Recommended - Readable
School Library Journal 05/01/2007 pg. 170
ALA Best Books Young Adults 01/01/2008 pg. 1

About the Author

Andrew Helfer, as group editor at DC Comics, launched its Paradox Press imprint and the award-winning Big Books series, and worked on everything from Batman to The History of Violence.

Randy DuBurke's illustrations have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Mad Magazine, DC and Marvel comics, graphic novels, and science-fiction magazines. He is the winner of the 2004 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award for illustration. He lives in New York.