Alex Haley

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United States writer and Afro-American who wrote a fictionalized account of tracing his family roots back to Africa (1921-1992)

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A sculpture group at the memorial site portrays Alex Haley seated, reading from a book to three children. Source: Internet

In literature Nathanael West 's 1939 novel The Day of the Locust includes a detailed and graphic cockfighting scene, as does the Alex Haley novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family and the miniseries based on it. Source: Internet

I read 'The Complete Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley,' and it was incredible," said Laurence Fishburne. Source: Internet

Perry, p. 374. Alex Haley, in his Epilogue to The Autobiography of Malcolm X, says 22,000 (p. 519). Source: Internet

In the epilogue to the book, Alex Haley states that Malcolm X revealed to him that he palmed the round. Source: Internet

That same year, however, Alex Haley 's iconic family saga Roots was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize. Source: Internet

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