Les Payne | |
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| Born | July 12, 1941 Tuscaloosa, Alabama, U.S. |
| Died | March 19, 2018 (aged 76) |
| Alma mater | University of Connecticut |
| Organization(s) | United States Army, Newsday |
| Notable work | National Association of Black Journalists |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award for Nonfiction |
Leslie Payne (July 12, 1941 – March 19, 2018)[1][2] 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 in 1974 for his investigative reporting, and, with daughter Tamara Payne, the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for his biography The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X.[2]
- ^ "Les Payne". The HistoryMakers. April 10, 2006. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
- ^ a b Jones, Bart (March 20, 2018). "Les Payne, former Newsday editor who won Pulitzer Prize, dies". Newsday. Archived from the original on April 1, 2018. Retrieved March 21, 2018.