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Alex Haley


Born
in Ithaca, New York, The United States
August 11, 1921

Died
February 10, 1992

Genre
Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction


Alexander Murray Palmer Haley 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.

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Average rating: 4.39 · 433,722 ratings · 13,593 reviews · 76 distinct works • Similar authors
Roots: The Saga of an Ameri...
4.44 avg rating — 161,062 ratings — published 1976 — 226 editions
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4.24 avg rating — 3,157 ratings — published 1992 — 31 editions
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Mama Flora's Family
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4.20 avg rating — 615 ratings — published 1998 — 12 editions
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A Different Kind of Christmas
3.71 avg rating — 565 ratings — published 1988 — 17 editions
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ஏழு தலைமுறைகள் [Ezhu Thalai...
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The Playboy Interviews
4.37 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions
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The Man Who Traced America'...
4.45 avg rating — 49 ratings — 3 editions
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Raízes II
4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1988 — 6 editions
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Raízes I
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“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
― Alex Haley
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“The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.”
― Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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“In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness. ”
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October 2015 New School Classics Group Read

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1997, Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, 449 pages
 
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1963, Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar, 564 pages
 
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