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- Haley had three children, a son and two daughters.
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He then met his wife, Bertha Palmer, and gave his mother, Queen Jackson Haley, three grand children: George, who became a lawyer, Julius, an architect, and Alex who became a writer. Alex Haley, her grandson, was unable to finish writing Queen before he died, and it was completed by David Stevens.
Feb 14, 1993 · The late Alex Haley, author of the Pulitzer-Prize winning “Roots: The Saga of an American Family,” revisits this era in “Queen,” a three-part CBS mini-series based on his 16-hour oral account...
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 his family ...
Sep 24, 1992 · “Roots” is his family history. So the comparisons are, perhaps, inevitable. But Mr. Haley says he stopped worrying about living in his father’s shadow years ago. “One day it hit me that Jesus had...
Haley's boyhood home at Henning, Tennessee, in 2007. 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).
Queen and Alec have a child, whom Queen names as Simon; she expresses high hopes for his future. When he completes the sixth grade, the point at which black boys in the South typically (in the subject setting) drop out of school to start full-time work in the fields, as did Henry and Abner, Simon's teacher comments to Queen that he is "the best ...
Jan 1, 1992 · Alex Haley's Queen: The Story of an American Family. Alex Haley, David Stevens. 4.24. 3,132 ratings147 reviews. Multigenerational saga of Alex Haley's father's family through his grandmother, Queen, the proud daughter born of a slave and a white slave owner. Genres Historical Fiction Fiction African American Historical Classics Literature Drama.
