![]() ![]() Stone, writing in the New York Review of Books, said the book "will have a permanent place in the literature of the Afro-American struggle."īut it was "Roots" that stirred the national psyche. It was published in 1965, shortly after Malcolm was slain, and has sold more than 6 million copies in eight languages. ![]() Haley also was the author of "The Autobiography of Malcolm X," which was based on extensive conversations with the former chief spokesman for the Nation of Islam. The 12-hour, eight-episode miniseries was seen by an estimated 130 million viewers when it was broadcast on ABC television in 1977. It received the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and has been translated into 37 languages. Published in October 1976, "Roots" sold 6 million copies in hardcover editions and millions more in paperback around the world. Alex Haley, 70, the American author whose 12-year search for his African ancestry produced the best-selling novel and blockbuster television miniseries "Roots: The Saga of an American Family," died yesterday at Swedish Hospital in Seattle after a heart attack. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |