Alex Haley taught himself to write during a twenty-year stint in the US Coast Guard. He became its first Chief Journalist, a position he held until he retired in 1959 to become a magazine writer and interviewer. His first book was The...

Alex Haley was born in Ithaca, New York in 1921. After his retirement from the Coast Guard in 1959, Haley began his writing career and eventually became a senior editor for Reader's Digest. Haley conducted the first Playboy Interview for...

"Wurzeln" (im Original "Roots: The Saga of an American Family") von Alex Haley ist ein historischer Roman, der die Geschichte der Vorfahren des Autors erzählt. Das Buch beginnt im 18. Jahrhundert in Westafrika mit Kunta Kinte, einem...