[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$f3V1gG5TbuBTf7yTN8qBw3Cb99_iwa4PaepfB0jg3hvo":3,"$fvPE1MsWv6HffYdOrsHFxi7IvrNfoEGv1aTXc63dU4ao":14},{"author":4,"tags":13},{"author_id":5,"author_name":6,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"bio":9,"short_bio":10,"slug":11,"image_url":12},7360,"Alex Haley","A",129,"The decades following World War II reshaped American literary culture, as writers grappled with questions of race, identity, and national memory that mainstream institutions had long deferred. Into this charged atmosphere came Alex Haley, a writer, journalist, and historian born on August 11, 1921, in Ithaca, who brought those questions to bear on a sweeping, personal scale.\n\nHaley was educated at Alcorn State University and Elizabeth City State University before serving as military personnel. Working across forms — journalism, fiction, history, and screenwriting — he built a career that moved between the factual and the narrative, between the public record and intimate chronicle. His citizenship extended across borders, holding ties to both the United States and Mali, a biographical detail that mirrors the transatlantic concerns present in his writing life.\n\nThat work found its fullest expression in Roots: The Saga of an American Family, published in 1976. He also wrote Queen: The Story of an American Family, extending his engagement with the kind of long-form narrative that defined his output. Both books reflect a writer who worked at the intersection of history, journalism, and fiction, bringing multiple disciplines to bear on a single sustained project.\n\nThe recognition Haley received across his career came from multiple quarters. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation or Award, the Spingarn Medal, the Lillian Smith Book Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Bancarella Literary Prize, and the Ellis Island Medal of Honor — a range of distinctions spanning literary, civil rights, and civic institutions. He died on February 10, 1992, in Seattle. The breadth of those honors, drawn from organizations with distinct and sometimes differing criteria, speaks to the varied registers in which his work was received: as literature, as history, and as a contribution to American public life.","The decades following World War II reshaped American literary culture, as writers grappled with questions of race, identity, and national memory that mainstream institutions had long deferred. 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Everything he did almost was dramatic, and it wasn't that he was trying to be: it was just the nature of him.",7,false,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":25,"quote_text":26,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":27,"source":28,"quote_tag":29,"commentary":12},3534687,"I think from what I personally know, I am really quite proud of most of the people I know who have 'made it,' who do things to help people.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":31,"quote_text":32,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":33,"source":34,"quote_tag":35,"commentary":12},3534678,"If you're blessed to do something like 'Roots'... you find yourself immersed. You're asked to do this, to do that - all for admirable causes. 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I couldn't be happier than when at sea.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":43,"quote_text":44,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":45,"source":46,"quote_tag":47,"commentary":12},3534660,"My own perception of Malcolm was one of something that bordered on fascination because I was looking at him and reacting to him as a subject.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":49,"quote_text":50,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":51,"source":52,"quote_tag":53,"commentary":12},3534652,"I know Juffure was a British trading post and my portrait of the village bears no resemblance to the way it was. But the portrait I gave was true of nearly all the other villages in Gambia. I, we, need a place called Eden. My people need Pilgrim's Rock.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":55,"quote_text":56,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":57,"source":58,"quote_tag":59,"commentary":12},3534624,"Two years passed, and I had no second book to follow 'Roots.' Four years passed, six years. When a decade had passed without me having another book to follow 'Roots,' I was having serious private frustrations with myself.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":61,"quote_text":62,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":63,"source":64,"quote_tag":65,"commentary":12},3534609,"The money I have made and will be making means nothing to me compared to the fact that about half of the black people I meet - ranging from the most sophisticated to the least sophisticated - say to me, 'I'm proud of you.' I feel strongly about always earning that and never letting black people down.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":67,"quote_text":68,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":69,"source":70,"quote_tag":71,"commentary":12},3534594,"If you think about it, there's not a religious group, there's not a nationalistic group, there's not a tribe, there is no grouping of people to my knowledge, of any consequence, who have not, at one or another time, been the object of hatred, racism, or who has not had people against them just because they were them.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":73,"quote_text":74,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":75,"source":76,"quote_tag":77,"commentary":12},3534581,"To the best of my knowledge and of my effort, every lineage statement within 'Roots' is from either my African or American families' carefully preserved oral history, much of which I have been able conventionally to corroborate with documents.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"currentPage":79,"totalPages":80,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":81},1,13,10]