Haley, Alex (Personal Name)

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Little, M. The autobiography of Malcolm X, 1967.

Nat'l Pub. Radio broadcast, 2-10-92 (Alex Haley; d. in Seattle, Wash., 10 Feb. 1992)

WW in Am., 1976-77 (Haley, Alex Palmer; b. Ithaca, N.Y., Aug. 11, 1921)

Celebration services of the life of Alexander Murray Palmer Haley ... 1992.

African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Haley, Alex; Alexander Palmer Haley; biographer, fiction writer; born 11 August 1921 in Ithaca, New York, United States; studied at Elizabeth City State Teachers College in North Carolina; in 1939 he enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard and spent twenty years advancing from mess boy to ship's cook on a munitions ship; on USS Murzin, in the South Pacific, during World War II; in 1949 the Coast Guard created the position of chief journalist for him; retired in 1959 and moved to Greenwich Village to work as a freelance writer; founder and president of the Kinte Foundation of Washington, D.C. (1972); his best-selling book "Roots" won a Pulitzer Prize and was made into a gripping television miniseries; died 10 February 1992 in Seattle, Washington, United States)