Malala's Magic Pencil 2009, and as her public profile rose, she began to receive death threats. On 9 October 2012, a member of the Taliban shot Yousafzai as she was taking a bus from school to her home. She was first sent to a hospital in Peshawar, and later to one in Birmingham. She continued to rise to fame and speak out for the rights of girls; at age 17, she became the youngest Nobel Prize laureate by winning the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2013, Yousafzai co-wrote her memoir "I Am Malala" with Christina Lamb, which was on the "New York Times"
Malala Yousafzai UK. A reviewer for "The Guardian" called the book "fearless" and stated that "the haters and conspiracy theorists would do well to read this book", though she criticised "the stiff, know-it-all voice of a foreign correspondent" that is interwoven with Yousafzai's. A reviewer for "The Washington Post" called the book "riveting" and wrote "It is difficult to imagine a chronicle of a war more moving, apart from perhaps the diary of Anne Frank." "Entertainment Weekly" gave the book a "B+", writing "Malala's bravely eager voice can seem a little thin here, in "I Am Malala", likely thanks to her co-writer,