Alex Haley

American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist (1921–1992)

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Born: August 11, 1921
Died: February 10, 1992
Works: 97

Top works

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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

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Female
Origin: United States
Active from: 1983

indie rock

Discography

Official site Discogs Stream

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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 41,730x
SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,742x
ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks
· 2017 · cited 31,398x
Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 22,980x
Welcome to the Tidyverse
· 2019 · cited 19,420x

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Quotes

“The family is our refuge and our springboard; nourished on it, we can advance to new horizons. In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.”
“Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.”
“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
“In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.”
“I knew I wanted to write. I had dreamed about it for years. I wasn’t going to be one of those people who die wondering, “What if?” I would keep putting my dream to the test — even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the Shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there. If you can't live here, get back to YOUR roots and LEARN to live here!”
“Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.”

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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"}]]}'>m. 1941 ; divorced"}]]}'>div. 1964 ) , Juliette Collins ( married"}]]}'>m. 1964 ; divorced"}]]}'>div. 1972 ) , Myran Lewis ( married"}]]}'>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

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Image: Alex Haley speaker at University of Texas at Arlington's Texas Hall (10011730).jpg

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date of birth: 1921-08-11
date of death: 1992-02-10
Commons category: Alex Haley
start of work period: 1960-00-00
nickname: Alex
name in native language: Alexander Murray Palmer Haley

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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.