Alex Haley Writer
Alexander Murray Palmer "Alex" Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer known as the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. The book was adapted by ABC as a TV mini-series of the same name and aired in 1977 to a record-breaking 130 million viewers. It had great influence on awareness in the United States of African-American history and inspired a broad interest in genealogy and family history.Haley's first book was 1965's The Autobiography of Malcolm X, a collaboration through numerous lengthy interviews with the subject, a major African-American leader.He was working on a second family history novel at his death. Haley had requested that David Stevens, a screenwriter, complete it; the book was published as Alex Haley's Queen. It was adapted as a film of the same name released in 1993.
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- http://books.google.com/books?id=Gr5Aleo5arsC&pg=PA9
- http://web.archive.org/web/20040803170852/http:/www.tnstate.edu/library/digital/Haley.htm
- http://www.alex-haley.com
- http://www.alex-haley.com/alex_haley_tells_the_story_of_his_search_for_roots.htm
- http://www.alexhaley.com
- http://www.kintehaley.org
- http://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/11/arts/text-malcolm-x-edited-found-in-writer-s-estate.html
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/about/pt_201.html
- http://www.rootsthebook.com
- http://www.tnstate.edu/library/digital/Haley.htm