Haley lived with his family in Henning, Tennessee, before returning to Ithaca with his family when he was five years old.

Haley's boyhood home at Henning, Tennessee, in 2007.Īlex Haley was born in Ithaca, New York, on August 11, 1921, and was the eldest of three brothers (the other two being George and Julius) and a half-sister (from his father's second marriage). It was adapted as a miniseries, Alex Haley's Queen, broadcast in 1993. Haley had requested that David Stevens, a screenwriter, complete it the book was published as Queen: The Story of an American Family. He was working on a second family history novel at his death. Haley's first book was The Autobiography of Malcolm X, published in 1965, a collaboration through numerous lengthy interviews with Malcolm X. 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. 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. What: The sixth annual Kunta Kinte Commemoration and Heritage Festival features arts and crafts exhibits, a children's discovery tent and ethnic foods.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. Dad was a story teller, and you can't destroy this story.' 'You can't destroy his legacy just because things went up for DTC sale,' Mr. They have planned another television miniseries for next February, called 'Queen,' which traces the other side of their family to Irish aristocrats. They are making plans to install memorials in Annapolis, Henning, Tenn., and Juffereh, the village in which Kunta Kinte was born. They are organizing a series of trips to Senegal and Gambia, West Africa, where their family originated.

Haley and his two sisters, Lydia and Cynthia, are focusing on keeping the legacy of 'Roots' alive. The family is not happy about the auction but doesn't want to get into a public fight, he said. Young college graduates told the son his father put them through school, Mr. 'But he got involved in a lot of limited partnerships - real-estate, hotels - and then the bottom fell out.' His father, always a philanthropist, stepped up his charitable contributions when he was diagnosed with lung cancer two years ago. 'He lived a good life, but he did not lead an exorbitant lifestyle,' Mr.

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