Alex Haley

By Zyteria

  • Birth Date

    Birth Date
    Alex Haley was born on August 11, 1921 in Ithaca, New York.

  • lifestyle

    lifestyle
    For the first five years of his life Haley lived with his mother and grandparents in Tennessee while his father finished his studies.

  • Mother passed away

    Mother passed away
    In 1931 his mother Bertha George Haley died.

  • Coast Guard

    Coast Guard
    Alex Haley began what became a 20 year career in the United States Coast Guard.

  • Marriage

    Marriage
    Alex married Nannie Branch and remained married for 13 years.

  • Journalism

    Journalism
    At the conclusion of World War II, the coast guard permitted Haley to transfer into the field of journalism, and by 1949 he had achieved the rank of first class petty officer in the rate of journalist.

  • Petty Officer First class

    Petty Officer First class
    By 1949 Alex had become a pretty officer first class in the rating of journalist.

  • Retired from Coast Guard

    Retired from Coast Guard
    After 20 years of service Haley retired and had a Coast Guard name in his honor, USCGC Alex Haley.

  • Playboy

    Playboy
    Haley interviewed jazz trumpeter Miles Davis for playboy.

  • First Book

    First Book
    “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” was published in 1965.

  • Award

    Award
    Received The Anisfield Wolf Book Award In 1966

  • Super Fly T.N.T

    Super Fly T.N.T
    Haley wrote his only screenplay.

  • Special Pulitzer Prize

    Special Pulitzer Prize
    Won special Pulitzer Prize for Roots in 1977.

  • Awards

    Awards
    Nominated to black filmmakers Hall of Fame.

  • Novel

    Novel
    Alex Haley's Queen: The Story of an American Family novel.

  • Alex Haley Death

    Alex Haley Death
    Later in Alex Haley’s career he passed from a heart attack.

  • Awards

    Awards
    The Republic of Korea (South Korea) posthumously awarded Haley its Korean War Service Medal.