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Alex Haley. Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) [1] was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers.
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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. He began writing to avoid boredom during voyages while ...
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Apr 2, 2014 · Alex Haley was a writer who chronicled his family's history from Africa to America as enslaved people and their rise to freedom. He is best known for his historical novel Roots, which was adapted into a TV miniseries and a Pulitzer Prize-winning book. He also co-authored The Autobiography of Malcolm X, a seminal work of the civil rights movement.
Nov 9, 2009 · Learn about Alex Haley, the writer who chronicled the history and struggles of African Americans in books like Roots and The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Find out how he became a journalist, a Coast Guard veteran and a genealogy pioneer.
- 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.
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Feb 9, 2017 · This week saw both the debut on BBC4 of a star-studded mini-series based on Alex Haley’s Roots, and the 25th anniversary of Haley’s death on 10 February 1992. That the latter was not ...
Feb 4, 2022 · The writer was Alex Haley, who had just retired from the U.S. Coast Guard at age 39. Following the publication of the Nation of Islam story, he would co-author “The Autobiography of Malcolm X ...
