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 | 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 | 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 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...
