Les Payne
(1941-2018)
American journalist
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Leslie "Les" Payne (July 12, 1941 – March 19, 2018) was an American journalist. He served as an editor and columnist at Newsday and was a founder of the National Association of Black Journalists. Payne received a Pulitzer Prize for his investigative research, and (with daughter Tamara Payne) the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction for his biography The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X.
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12 July 1941 Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
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19 March 2018 (aged 76)
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| Zodiac | Cancer |
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