by Adam Henig | Aug 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
Last month, Hollywood Reporter reported that actor Laurence Fishburne—best known for his roles in the Matrix trilogy and Boyz in the Hood—would play the role of Alex Haley in the upcoming Roots remake. This made-for-television movie, which will be co-produced by LeVar...
by Adam Henig | Sep 18, 2014 | Uncategorized |
I don’t normally gloat (let alone, reblog) about every positive book review I’ve received, but on this occasion I could not resist. The blogger did an excellent job of integrating the actual book review with his personal connection to Alex Haley and Roots....
by Adam Henig | Jul 28, 2014 | Alex Haley, Self-publishing, Uncategorized, Writing |
What’s the best part about being a self-published author?Well, that’s easy—selecting your book cover!One of the biggest gripes among traditional published authors, aside from getting nominal royalty rates, receiving minimal visibility in bookstores, and...
by Adam Henig | Apr 13, 2014 | Alex Haley, Uncategorized |
In mid-February, InsideofKnoxville.com published a post I had written about my experience in Knoxville, Tennessee.To my surprise, the blog was a hit, having been shared on Facebook by more than 250 users and receiving a record number of comments (in comparison to the...
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...
