# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alex-haley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:34:40.946Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/alex-haley"
name: "Alex Haley"
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description: "Alexander Murray Palmer Haley was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers. In the United States, the book and miniseries raised the public awareness of black American history and inspired a broad interest in genealogy and family history. Haley's first book was The Autobiography of Malcolm X, published in 1965, a collaboration through numerous lengthy interviews with Malcolm X."
tagline: "American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist (1921–1992)"
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birthDate: "1921-08-11"
deathDate: "1992-02-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump