Alex Haley
Sign in to saveAmerican biographer, screenwriter, and novelist (1921–1992)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- August 11, 1921
- Died
- February 10, 1992
- Works
- 97
Top works
- 根
- Daufuskie Island, a photographic essay
- Autobiography of Malcolm X (SparkNotes Literature Guide) (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
- Yiltiz
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Film & TV
Writing · Ithaca, New York, USA
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an African-American writer. He is best known as the author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family and the coauthor of The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alex Haley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
- Papa Césaire — Self2009
- Malcolm X: Make It Plain — Self1994
- Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time — Self (archive footage)1992
- Roots: The Gift — Self - presenter1988
- American Experience — Self - Biographer1988
- Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words — Self1987
- EPCOT Center: The Opening Celebration — Self1982
- Apostrophes — Self1975
- The Mike Douglas Show — Self1961
- Bambi — Self1948
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 251
- Total plays
- 3,041
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,243x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,272x
- ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks
· 2017 · cited 31,210x
- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 22,782x
- Self-interaction correction to density-functional approximations for many-electron systems
· 1981 · cited 19,356x
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Key facts
- Born
- Alexander Murray Palmer Haley , ( 1921-08-11 ) August 11, 1921, Ithaca, New York , U.S.
- Died
- February 10, 1992 (1992-02-10) (aged 70), Seattle , Washington, U.S.
- Occupation
- Coast Guardsman, writer
- Years active
- 1939–1992
- Spouse
- Nannie Branch ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1941 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1964 ) , Juliette Collins ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1964 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1972 ) , Myran Lewis ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1977 )
- Children
- Lydia, William Alex, Dolores, and Alexander Murray Palmer Jr.
- Relatives
- Simon Haley (father), George W. Haley (brother)
- Allegiance
- United States
- Branch
- United States Coast Guard
- Service years
- 1939–1959
- Rank
- Chief Petty Officer
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 11 August 1921
- Died
- 10 February 1992
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Mali
- Place of birth
- Ithaca
- Place of death
- Seattle
- Occupation
- screenwriter
- Educated at
- Alcorn State University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Roots: The Saga of an American Family
- Conflict
- World War II
Article
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) 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. In the United States, the book and miniseries raised the public awareness of black American history and inspired a broad interest in genealogy and family history. Haley's first book was The Autobiography of Malcolm X, published in 1965, a collaboration through numerous lengthy interviews with Malcolm X.
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 Queen: The Story of an American Family. It was adapted as a miniseries, Alex Haley's Queen, broadcast in 1993.
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Categories
1921 births1992 deaths20th-century American biographers20th-century American historians20th-century American journalists20th-century American male journalists20th-century American male writers20th-century American novelistsAfrican-American military personnel of the Korean WarAfrican-American novelistsAfrican Americans in World War IIAfrican-American United States Coast Guard personnel