by Adam Henig | May 19, 2015 | Alex Haley, Biography, St. Petersburg |
Alex Haley’s brother died Last week, Alex Haley’s younger brother, Ambassador George Haley, died at the age of 89. George was the last living member of the immediate family—Alex’s mother Bertha died in 1931; his father, Simon, passed away in 1973; Alex in 1992;...
by Adam Henig | Nov 3, 2014 | Biography, Book Review, Self-publishing |
The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro As we embark on the eve of Election Day, it’s an opportunity to reconsider one of the most powerful twentieth century American political figures, President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Of all the authors that...
by Adam Henig | Feb 9, 2014 | Alex Haley, Biography, Self-publishing, Writing |
Holed up in a hotel room, where I was spending the weekend with my wife in San Francisco, I took an hour out of the day to be interviewed for my first podcast experience. The interview had been arranged weeks before, but I did my due diligence in checking with my wife...
by Adam Henig | Jan 25, 2014 | Alex Haley, Biography, Uncategorized, Writing |
To his colleagues and friends, it was a bit of a shock—Alex Haley hired a white, southern folk singer to serve as his official biographer. It was the mid-1980s, less than a decade after publication of Roots. Haley, in his early sixties, was still a household name and...
by Adam Henig | Dec 17, 2013 | Alex Haley, Biography, Uncategorized
Over the past five years while I was conducting research for Alex Haley’s Roots: An Author’s Odyssey, I had the pleasure of interviewing several of Haley’s friends, fellow writers, and colleagues.In 2010, during an interview I conducted with Fulton Oursler, Jr., a...
by Adam Henig | Dec 10, 2013 | Biography, Book Review
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Olympics The team effort–the perfectly synchronized flow of muscle, oars, boat, and water; the single, whole, unified, and beautiful symphony that a crew member in motion...
