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| serviceyears = 1939–1959 | rank = 25px Chief Petty Officer | servicenumber = | unit = | commands = | battles = World War II | battles_label = | awards = }} }} Alexander Murray Palmer "Alex" Haley (August 11, 1921February 10, 1992)〔 was an American writer known as the author of the 1976 book ''Roots: The Saga of an American Family.'' The book was adapted by ABC as a TV mini-series of the same name and aired in 1977 to a record-breaking 130 million viewers. It had great influence on awareness in the United States of African-American history and inspired a broad interest in genealogy and family history. Haley's first book was 1965's ''The Autobiography of Malcolm X'', a collaboration through numerous lengthy interviews with the subject, a major African-American leader.〔Stringer, Jenny (ed), ''The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English'' (1986), Oxford University Press, p 275〕〔 He was working on a second family history novel at his death. Haley had requested that David Stevens, a screenwriter, complete it; the book was published as ''Alex Haley's Queen.'' It was adapted as a film of the same name released in 1993. ==Early life and education== Alex Haley was born in Ithaca, New York, on August 11, 1921, and was the oldest of three brothers and a sister. Haley lived with his family in Henning, Tennessee, before returning to Ithaca with his family when he was five years old. Haley's father was Simon Haley, a professor of agriculture at Alabama A&M University, and his mother was Bertha George Haley (née Palmer) who was from Henning. The family had African American, Cherokee, Scottish, and Scots-Irish roots.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/7917605.stm )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/science/genetics/2009-04-06-haley-dna_n.htm )〕 The younger Haley always spoke proudly of his father and the obstacles of racism he had overcome. Like his father, Alex Haley was enrolled at age 15 in Alcorn State University, a historically black college, and, a year later, enrolled at Elizabeth City State College, also historically black, in North Carolina. The following year he returned to his father and stepmother to tell them he had withdrawn from college. His father felt that Alex needed discipline and growth, and convinced him to enlist in the military when he turned 18. On May 24, 1939, Alex Haley began what became a 20-year career with the United States Coast Guard.〔African Americans in the U.S. Coast Guard, US Coast Guard Historians Office〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alex Haley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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