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    Alex Haley was born in Ithaca, New York, on August 11, 1921, and was the eldest of three brothers (the other two being George and Julius) and a half-sister (from his father's second marriage). Haley lived with his family in Henning, Tennessee, before returning to Ithaca with his family when he was five years old.

  3. Sep 24, 1992 · Haley’s children keep the legacy of ‘Roots’ alive. By Joanna Daemmrich. PUBLISHED: September 24, 1992 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: October 25, 2018 at 12:40 p.m. Like his father before him,...

  4. Nov 9, 2009 · Haley had three children, a son and two daughters. His later works included A Different Kind of Christmas (1988) and Queen, another historical novel based on a different branch of...

    • Haley’s Notable Service Awards And Accomplishments. Haley’s awards and decorations from the U.S. Coast Guard include the American Defense Service Medal (with “Sea” clasp), American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Coast Guard Good Conduct Medal (with 1 silver and 1 bronze service star), Korean Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal, United Nations Service Medal and the Coast Guard Expert Marksmanship Medal.
    • Reader’s Digest And Playboy Magazine. After retiring from the Coast Guard, in 1959, after twenty years of military service, Haley continued as a journalist, first as a writer and senior editor at Reader’s Digest—a monthly general interest family magazine.
    • Malcolm X. One of Haley’s most famous interviews was the Malcolm X Interview (1963) for Playboy, which led to their collaboration on the activist’s autobiography, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, based on interviews conducted shortly before Malcolm’s death (and with an epilogue).
    • Roots: The Saga of an American Family. Pursuing the few slender clues of oral family history told him by his maternal grandmother in Henning, Tennessee, Haley spent the next twelve years traveling three continents tracking his maternal family back to a Mandingo youth, named Kunta Kinte, who was kidnapped into slavery from the small village of Juffure, in The Gambia, West Africa.
  5. Apr 2, 2014 · Haley had three children, a son and two daughters. Death and Legacy. Haley died of a heart attack on February 10, 1992, in Seattle, Washington, at the age of 70.

  6. Family: father: Simon Haley. mother: Bertha George Haley. siblings: George W. Haley. Quotes By Alex Haley Novelists. Died on: February 10, 1992. place of death: Seattle, Washington, United States. Cause of Death: Coronary Thrombosis. Notable Alumni: Alcorn State University, Elizabeth City State University. Ancestry: Gambian American.

  7. Apr 30, 2024 · Alex Haley (born August 11, 1921, Ithaca, New York, U.S.—died February 10, 1992, Seattle, Washington) was an American writer whose works of historical fiction and reportage depicted the struggles of African Americans. Although his parents were teachers, Haley was an indifferent student.

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