1. Alex Haley - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Haley was born to Simon Haley and Bertha Palmer.Haley s father, Simon Alexander Haley, was a professor of agriculture who had served in World War I after http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Haley

Alex Haley From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Alex Haley Haley as a young man in the U.S. Coast Guard Born August 11 Ithaca New York citation needed Died February 10 Seattle Washington Occupation ... African American literature Alexander Murray Palmer Haley August 11 February 10 ) was an American writer . He is best known as the author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family , and of The Autobiography of Malcolm X , the latter of which he wrote in collaboration with Malcolm X Contents Early life Writing career Playboy magazine Malcolm X ... edit Early life Born in Ithaca, New York, in 1921, Haley spent his first five years in Henning, Tennessee in an African American family mixed with Irish and Cherokee ancestry with his 2 younger brothers. Haley was born to Simon Haley and Bertha Palmer.Haley's father, Simon Alexander Haley , was a professor of agriculture who had served in World War I after graduating college. The younger Haley always spoke proudly of his father and the incredible obstacles of racism he had overcome. Alex Haley was first sent off to college at the age of 15. At the age of seventeen he returned home to inform his father of his withdrawal from Alcorn State University . Simon Haley felt that Alex needed discipline and growth and convinced his son to enlist in the military. On May 24 , Alex Haley began his 20-year service with the Coast Guard He enlisted as a mess-boy and then became a third class Petty Officer in the rate of Mess Attendant , one of the few enlisted designators open to African Americans at that time. It was during his service in the

2. Alex Haley --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on Alex Haley American writer whose works of historical fiction and reportage depicted the struggles of African http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9038878/Alex-Haley

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3. Alex Haley Alex Haley. Alex Haley AKA Alexander Murray Palmer Haley. Born 11Aug-1921 Father Simon Alexander Haley (professor of agriculture) http://www.nndb.com/people/957/000025882/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Alex Haley AKA Alexander Murray Palmer Haley Born: 11-Aug Birthplace: Ithaca, NY Died: 10-Feb Location of death: Swedish Hospital Medical Center, Seattle, WA Cause of death: Heart Failure Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: Black Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Novelist, Journalist Nationality: United States Executive summary: Roots Military service: US Coast Guard (20 years, left 1959) Father: Simon Alexander Haley (professor of agriculture) Mother: Bertha George Palmer (schoolteacher) Wife: Nannie Branch (m. 1941, div. 1964) Wife: Juliette Collins (m. 1964, div. 1972) Wife: Myra Lewis University: Elizabeth City Teacher's College, North Carolina (studied 1937-9) Concerned Businessmen's Association of America Spingarn Medal Pulitzer Prize 1977, special, for Roots National Book Award 1977 for Roots FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR Roots: The Next Generations (18-Feb-1979) Himself Author of books: The Autobiography of Malcolm X , biography) Roots, The Saga of an American Family

4. Alex Haley Alex Haley was born in Ithaca, New York, on 11th August, 1921. He studied at the Elizabeth City Teacher s College in North Carolina before deciding to serve http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAhaley.htm

Home Email Search Author ... Index Page Alex Haley was born in Ithaca, New York, on 11th August, 1921. He studied at the Elizabeth City Teacher's College in North Carolina before deciding to serve in the United States Coast Guard (1939-59). While in the Coast Guard he began writing short stories but it was eight years before any of his work was published. After retiring from the Coast Guard he managed to develop a career in journalism. This included work with the Reader's Digest magazine. He also carried out interviews for Playboy Magazine . His interview with Malcolm X in 1962 was later used as the basis of the book, The Autobiography of Malcolm X Haley's most popular work was his novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976). The book grew out of stories told by his grandmother of her family's life in West Africa. Although criticised by reviewers for factual inaccuracies, Roots was incredibly popular, selling 1.6 million copies in the first six months after publication. In 1977 Haley won the Pulitzer Prize and Springarn Medal from the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP).

5. Gale - Free Resources - Black History - Biographies - Alex Haley Alex Haley. (19211992) Journalist, Novelist. The author of the widely acclaimed novel Roots was born in Ithaca, New York on August 11, 1921, and reared in http://gale.cengage.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/haley_a.htm

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6. IBistro Montgomery County Dept. Of Public Libraries Haley, Alex. 1 copy available at Longbranch Library in MEDIA. 6, 929.2 HALEY, 1993. Alex Haley s Queen the story of an American family Haley, Alex. http://webcat.montgomerylibrary.org/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=Haley Al

7. Alex Haley On LibraryThing | Catalog Your Books Online Also known as haley alex, David B. Pillemer. 1175 LibraryThing users have 1286 books by Alex Haley There are 39 conversations about Alex Haley s books. http://www.librarything.com/author/haleyalex

Language: English [ others Albanian Basque Bulgarian ... Welsh Over twenty-two million books on members' bookshelves. Home Book Suggestions Zeitgeist Groups ... Blog Courtesy of www.mrdowling.com/609ancafr.html 1 picture add a picture Author: Alex Haley Also known as: HALEY ALEX David B. Pillemer Members Reviews Rating Favorited Conversations Books by Alex Haley combine/separate works Roots 1164 copies, 15 reviews 129 copies, 1 review A different kind of Christmas 38 copies, review Mama Flora's family : a novel 20 copies, review Alex Haley: The Playboy Interviews 4 copies, review 3 copies, review Alfred Hitchcocks Mystery Magazine 3 copies, review 1 copy, review The Man Who Traced Americas Roots 1 copy, review Roots/Teachers Guide 1 copy, review Malcolm X 1 copy, review Member ratings Average: 0.5 stars 1 stars 1.5 stars 2 stars 2.5 stars 3 stars 3.5 stars 4 stars 4.5 stars 5 stars Common Knowledge Share what you know. view history You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data. For more help see the Common Knowledge help page Canonical name Gender male Date of birth Date of death Burial location Nationality Places of residence Ithaca, New York, USA

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9. Alex Haley - Wikipedia Translate this page Haley starb kurz vor der Vollendung des Manuskriptes. Es wurde von David Stevens fertiggestellt und unter dem Titel Alex Haley s Queen veröffentlicht. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Haley

Alex Haley aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklop¤die Wechseln zu: Navigation Suche Alexander Palmer Haley 11. August in Ithaca New York 10. Februar in Seattle Washington ) war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller . Bekannt wurde er weltweit durch seinen Roman Roots , in dem er die zuvor nur m¼ndlich tradierte Geschichte seiner Vorfahren erz¤hlte, beginnend mit Kunta Kinte , der 1767 im heutigen Gambia entf¼hrt und als Sklave in die damalige britische Kolonie Maryland verschleppt worden sein soll. F¼r Roots erhielt er 1977 den Pulitzer-Preis . Im selben Jahr wurde die gleichnamige Fernsehserie ausgestrahlt. Inhaltsverzeichnis Leben und Werk Plagiats- und F¤lschungsvorw¼rfe Werke Weblinks ... Bearbeiten Leben und Werk Alex Haley diente 20 Jahre lang bei der US-K¼stenwache Haley wuchs im S¼den der USA auf und diente von 1939 bis 1959 in der K¼stenwache. Nebenher begann er Kurzgeschichten und Artikel zu schreiben. Er arbeitetet f¼r Reader's Digest und schrieb 1965 als Ghostwriter die Autobiographie von Malcolm X . Er hatte nach eigenen Angaben zw¶lf Jahre f¼r Roots recherchiert, und das 1976 erschienene Buch sowie die im darauffolgenden Jahr erstmals ausgestrahlte Fernsehserie wurden enorm erfolgreich.

10. Alex Haley - Simple English Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Alexander Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an AfricanAmerican writer (he was also Irish and Cherokee). He is best known for the The http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Haley

Alex Haley From Simple English Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia that anyone can change Jump to: navigation search Alexander Palmer Haley August 11 February 10 ) was an African-American writer (he was also Irish and Cherokee ). He is best known for the 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 TV mini-series. This short article can be made longer. You can help Wikipedia by adding to it Retrieved from " http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Haley Categories Writers from the United States 1921 births ... 1992 deaths Views Page Talk Change this page History Personal tools Log in / create account Getting around Main Page Community portal Simple talk New changes ... Give to Wikipedia Search Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages ... Cite this page In other languages Dansk Deutsch English Fran§ais ... Svenska This page was last modified 08:54, 23 November 2007. This text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License . (See for details.)

11. Alex Haley - Authors - Books - Fine Arts - News Television The adaptation of Alex Haley s Roots was the biggest thing. It was on when I was 11 and I changed my path. It inspired me to start connecting http://www.wikio.com/fine_arts/books/authors/alex_haley

Search Alex Haley All News News Blogs New tab personalize your page by selecting the info that interests you! relevance date popularity Subscribe News Fine Arts Books Authors Alex Haley Alex Haley To read today's news personalize this page Vote! (+) A New Genealogy Show for U.S. Television Eastman's Online Genealogy Newslett - 01/22/2008 Tags : Authors Family Tree Fine Arts United Kingdom ... and Spain. Of course, the United States had the wildly popular Roots series in 1977, based upon Alex Haley 's novel of the same name. However, it was a television adaptation of a novel that was loosely (but not accurately)... add comment send to a friend Vote! The world of Kwame Kwei-Armah The Telegraph - 01/19/2008 Tags : Actors and Actresses Artists Entertainment Fine Arts ... Music ... could never come close, and it stopped me writing for maybe a decade.Television The adaptation of Alex Haley 's Roots was the biggest thing. It was on when I was 11 and I changed my path. It inspired me to start connecting myself with Africa and to find my true identity.Travel I first went to Ghana in 1992. I remember it like yesterday. I was still Ian Roberts then [he changed his...

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Catch the latest action, scores and banter in Sports Join Sign in Help ... Blogger Central 22 posts tagged alex haley Subscribe Posts Blogs Videos Photos search in entire post tags only of blogs with any authority a little authority some authority a lot of authority in language all languages Arabic (العربية) Chinese (中文) Dutch (Nederlands) English French (Fran§ais) German (Deutsch) Greek (Ελληνικά) Hebrew (עברית) Italian (Italiano) Japanese (日本語) Korean (한국어) Norwegian (Norsk) Persian (فارسی) Polish (Polski) Portuguese (Portuguªs) Russian (Русский) Spanish (Espa±ol) Swedish (Svenska) Turkish (T¼rk§e) Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt) Roots http://countrycontemplative.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 01/ 12/ roots/ Last night at dinner our daughter was describing a class she is taking. I don’t know the title, but the content deals with Frederick Douglass and slavery in America. She really loves her teacher who is a Ph.D candidate and very animated about this subject. Her homework this weekend involves slave chronicles. 11 days ago in Country Contemplative Authority: 22 So that I don’t have to think … http://evancalous.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 01/ 11/ so-that-i-dont-have-to-think/

13. Alex Haley Biographical information and a list of selected works. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ahaley.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne Alex Palmer Haley (1921-1992) American biographer, scriptwriter, and novelist, whose most famous work is ROOTS, a publishing phenomenon and international bestseller. Haley traced in it his ancestry back to Africa and covered seven American generations, starting from his ancestor, Kunta Kinte. The book was adapted to television series, and woke up an interest in genealogy, particularly among African-Americans. Haley himself commented that the novel was not so much history as a study of mythmaking: "What Roots gets at in whatever form, is that it touches the pulse of how alike we human beings are when you get down to the bottom, beneath these man-imposed differences." He said that three groups of people lived in every village. First were those you could see - walking around, eating, sleeping, and working. Second were the ancestors, whom Grandma Yaisa had now joined. "And the third people - who are they?" asked Kunta.

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HALEY, ALEX U.S. Writer Alex Haley, an African American writer, is best known for as the author of the novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family , from which two television miniseries, Roots and Roots II , were adapted. The novels, loosely based on Haley's own family, presented an interpretation of the journey of African Americans from their homeland to the United States and their subsequent search for freedom and dignity. The novel was published in 1976, when the United States was celebrating it's bicentennial. During the last week of January 1977 the first Roots miniseries was aired by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). Its phenomenal success surprised everyone, including Haley and the network executives who had "dumped" the program into one week, fearing the subject matter would not attract an audience. Instead Roots garnered one of the largest audiences for dramatic television in the U.S. history of the medium, averaging a 44.9 rating and a 66 share. The success of Roots went far beyond attracting a large audience, however. The miniseries and Alex Haley, became a

15. Alex Haley Six weeks after his birth, Simon and Bertha returned to Henning, Tennessee, and presented Will and Cynthia Palmer with their grandson, alex haley. http://www.tnstate.edu/library/digital/Haley.htm

ALEX HALEY (1921-1992) Alexander Murray Palmer Haley, the oldest of three sons (George and Julius), was born to Simon and Bertha (Palmer) Haley on August 11, 1921, in Ithaca, New York. Six weeks after his birth, Simon and Bertha returned to Henning, Tennessee, and presented Will and Cynthia Palmer with their grandson, Alex Haley. Alex and his mother remained with the Palmers, while Simon returned to Cornell University to complete his graduate studies in agriculture. After the death of Will Palmer in 1926, Simon Haley joined his wife and family in Henning and operated the Palmer business. In 1929, Simon Haley began his teaching career, and the family moved. Two years after they relocated, Bertha Haley died in Normal, Alabama. At the age of fifteen, Alex Haley was graduated from high school. He attended college for two years, then in 1939 he enlisted in the United States Coast Guard as a messboy. While in the Coast Guard, he began writing short stories; it would be eight years later, however, before any of his stories were published. Approximately thirteen years after entering the Coast Guard, Haley became chief journalist. After twenty years of military service, Haley retired in 1959. Upon his retirement, he embarked upon a new career as a writer. He became an assignment writer for Reader's Digest magazine and later was associated with Playboy magazine, where he inaugurated the "Playboy Interviews" feature. Soon he was recognized for his insightful and in-depth interviews. His interviews of Malcolm X lead to his first book

16. The Kunta Kinte - Alex Haley Foundation, Inc. The Kunta Kinte Ö alex haley Foundation is dedicated to fostering the exploration, rediscovery, and preservation of AfricanAmerican history, culture, http://www.kintehaley.org/

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17. Alex Haley Writer Malcolm X. alex haley served in the United States Coast Guard during the Second World War Visit IMDb for Photos, Filmography, Discussions, Bio, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0355077/

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19. Alex Haley Plot Synopsis Based on alex haley s bestselling novel about his African ancestors, Roots followed several generations in the lives of a slave family. http://aalbc.com/authors/alex.htm

document.write(''); Alex Haley African American Literature Book Club - The #1 Site for "Readers of Black Literature" Enter your search terms Submit search form Search the Web AALBC.com Thumpers Corner Book Search Home Back Author Home Up ... Advertise Alex Haley Journalist, writer; born in Ithaca, N.Y. He grew up in Henning, Tenn., studied at Elizabeth City (N.C.) Teachers' College (1937-39), and became a journalist while serving in the U.S. Coast Guard (1939-59). Retiring from the service, he established himself in Los Angeles as a free-lance writer, distinguished by his Playboy interviews. He first gained some national attention as the collaborator-editor of The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965). His highly acclaimed work, Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976, Pulitzer Prize) turned out to be a mixture of fact and fiction but was definitely based on his African-American roots; he had spent 12 years researching his ancestry and claimed to trace it to a Kunte Kinte, brought as a slave to America from Gambia in 1767. The book was the basis of a phenomenally successful television miniseries (1977), for which he received a special Pulitzer Prize and the Spingarn Medal. A sequel, Queen (1993), also appeared as a book and television miniseries.

20. USCGC Alex Haley - Kodiak, Alaska Originally commissioned in 1971 as the USS Edenton (ATS1), now a 282-foot medium endurance cutter. http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/haley/

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