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Peer reviewedAllen, Robert L. – Black Scholar, 1976
A native of Henning, Tennessee, Alex Haley taught himself to write during a twenty year career in the U.S. Coast Guard. After retiring from that service, in 1959, he became a magazine writer and interviewer, and has spent 12 years researching and writing "Roots" (Doubleday, 1976), the epic drama of his family from the abduction of his…
Descriptors: African History, Authors, Biographies, Black History
