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Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an African-American writer. He also had Irish and Cherokee ancestry. He was born in Ithaca, New York. He is best known for The Autobiography of Malcolm X, which he helped Malcolm X write, and his book Roots: The Saga of an American Family, which was about his family history and inspired a television mini-series. He died of a heart attack in Seattle, Washington.
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Haley's boyhood home at Henning, Tennessee, in 2007.
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Historical marker in front of Alex Haley's boyhood home at Henning, Tennessee in 2007.
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Haley's grave beside his boyhood home at Henning, Tennessee in 2010.
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USCGC Alex Haley (WMEC-39)