American writer and author of the popular 1970s book Roots which was adapted into a record setting TV mini-series.
"The giving and getting, the sense of belonging and contributing to something larger than yourself, to something that began before you were born and will go on after you die, can make it possible for you to accept life in a way that makes you wish the whole world could realize how easy it is to feel as you do, and wonder why they don’t. That’s what having roots—and writing Roots—has done for me. I pray that reading it—and then reaching out for their families to join in a search of their own—will do the same for everyone." ~ Alex Haley (A Candid Conversation With Murray Fisher, January 1977)
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American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist
| Born | August 11, 1921 |
| Died | February 10, 1992 |
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Alex Haley
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American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist
| Born | August 11, 1921 |
| Died | February 10, 1992 |
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Biography, Juvenile literature, History, African Americans, Fiction, African American families, Biographies, Noirs américains, Afro-Americans, Family, Genealogy, Indians of North America, African americans, fiction, Blacks, Civil rights, Education, Haley family, Africa, African americans, biography, Alex Haley, American literature, Familia Haley, Familia Kinte, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, sagasPlaces
United States, California, Alabama, Massachusetts, Southern states, America, Florida, New York, New York (N.Y.), New York (State), Spain, Tennessee, 20th century, Andover, Arkansas, Barbados, Boston, Calif.) Chinatown (San Francisco, Chicago, China, Chinatown, Chinatown (San Francisco), Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.), Daufuskie Island (S.C.), Eastern EuropePeople
Alex Haley, Haley family, Kinte family, Familia Haley, Familia Kinte, Haley (Famille), Kinté (Famille), Malcolm X, Abigail Williams, Ann Putnam, Anne Marbury Hutchinson (1591-1643), Anzia Yezierska (1880?-1970), Arthur Miller (1915-), Betsy Ross (1752-1836), Betty Parris, Bill Downey, Brently Mallard, Bridget Bishop, Cesar Chavez (1927-), Cesar Chavez (1927-1993), Christopher Columbus, Dame Shirley (1819-1906), Devil, Dolores Huerta (1930-), Dorothy Spruill RedfordTime
20th century, Revolution, 1775-1783, 1692, 1775-1865, 1812-1815, 1861-1865, 1861-65, 18th century, 1929, 19th century, American Civil War, Civil War, 1861-1865, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, December, New Plymouth, 1620-1691, To 1846ID Numbers
- OLID: OL217730A
- ISNI: 0000000121413152
- VIAF: 80007399
- Wikidata: Q296069
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q296069
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Alternative names
- Alexander Murray Palmer Haley
- Alex HALEY
- HALEY Alex
- HALEY ALEX.
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