This is an analysis of the "Autobiography of Malcolm X." It provides valuable insight into the mind of one of the most important civil rights leaders of the twentieth-century. The Autobiography, published posthumously, stands as a major twentieth-century African American literary work. The Autobiography, however, also serves as a both a spiritual narrative (in which Malcolm documents his conversion experience) and a success story of the self-made man. The book is divided into four parts, to represent the four stages of Malcolm's life as Malcolm Little, Detroit Red, Malcolm X, and Omawole. In fact, it is this meshing of so many modes, and so many different "Malcolm's", that may be the book's most significant achievement.