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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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Feb 10, 1992 · Learn about the life and achievements of Alex Haley, the author of Roots and a former U.S. Coast Guard journalist. Explore his early days, military service, writing career, awards and legacy.
Alex Haley's Queen (also known as Queen) is a 1993 American television miniseries that aired in three installments on February 14, 16, and 18 on CBS. The miniseries is an adaptation of the 1993 novel Queen: The Story of an American Family, by Alex Haley and David Stevens.
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a 1976 novel written by Alex Haley. It tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent, sold into slavery in Africa, and transported to North America; it follows his life and the lives of his descendants in the United States down to Haley.
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He is best known for The Autobiography of Malcolm X, which he helped Malcolm X write, and his book Roots: The Saga of an American Family, which was about his family history and inspired a television mini-series. He died of a heart attack in Seattle, Washington .
Nov 9, 2009 · Learn about Alex Haley, the writer who chronicled the history and struggles of African Americans in books like Roots, The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Queen. Find out about his life, career, awards and legacy on HISTORY.com.
The noted author Alex Haley (1921–1992) was the grandson of Queen, the illegitimate and unacknowledged daughter of James "Jass" Jackson III (the son of a friend, but not a relative, of Andrew Jackson) and Easter, a woman he enslaved. The novel recounts Queen's anguished early years as an enslaved girl, longing to know who her father was, and ...
