High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Autobiography of Malcolm X was published in 1965, the result of a collaboration between Malcolm X and journalist Alex Haley. Haley coauthored the autobiography based on a series of in-depth interviews he conducted between 1963 and Malcolm X`s 1965 assassination. The Autobiography is a spiritual conversion narrative that outlines Malcolm X`s philosophy of black pride, black nationalism, and pan-Africanism. After the death of his subject, Haley authored the book`s epilogue,a which describes their collaboration and summarizes the end of Malcolm X`s life.