by Adam Henig | Jan 18, 2015 | Alex Haley |
To commemorate the annual federal holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I wanted to share a story behind Alex Haley’s Playboy interview of the civil rights leader, which was published exactly 50 years ago this month. This blog post was originally...
by Adam Henig | Aug 11, 2014 | Alex Haley, Self-publishing, Writing |
On August 11, Alex Haley would have turned 93 years-old. To commemorate his birthday, I wanted to share a story about how he got his start as a professional writer. *** Long after he became a best selling author, Alex Haley recalled a phone conversation he had in...
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 | Jan 15, 2014 | Alex Haley |
To commemorate the annual federal holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I wanted to share the story behind Alex Haley’s Playboy interview of the civil rights leader. *** During the winter of 1964, when the forty-three year-old Alex Haley approached...
by Adam Henig | Dec 3, 2013 | Alex Haley
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk6WzB9Zwgw] In late 1964, Alex Haley was finalizing the galleys of his co-authored book, the highly anticipated The Autobiography of Malcolm X. At that same time, he was also in talks with book publisher Doubleday, Inc. about...
